adopted child

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Next, it's Thor's turn, with Doomsday's second teaser showing him tearfully praying to his father to help him protect his adopted child.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Every cuckoo is an adopted child -- raised by foster parents, into whose nest the cuckoo mother smuggled her egg.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

I had known that Katherine herself was an adopted child.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

After arresting her in January, F.B.I. agents questioned her about her adopted child.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022

Lewis had two marriages that ended in divorce, and in 1918, in her mid-fifties, she was raising a ten-year-old adopted child.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann