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adopted
adjective as in popular
adjective as in preferred
Example Sentences
If bacteriophages are so spectacular, why weren’t they adopted in the U.S. and many other Western nations?
In 1985, a divided City Council adopted a resolution declaring Los Angeles a city of sanctuary for immigrants fleeing political persecution and violence, particularly refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala.
She told the court the pet had been adopted as a puppy in 2022.
Panel co-chair Professor Leanne McCormick has said there is evidence of private nursing homes being used to house pregnant mothers, whose babies were then adopted.
Still, there are times when their new house feels strangely unfamiliar to her, she says, like an "adopted space" which has not been lived in enough.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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