to adopt
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- verb
- /əˈdɑpt/
:
adoptar
- But you, you were adopted into a Catholic family.
- adopt a child
- adopt internationally
- adopt from foster care
I made that Madonna adopts twins from Skegness.
- I made that Madonna adopts twins from Skegness.
- And he had adopted a child from Nicaragua.
- I just know if I was adopted, I wouldn't feel that loved.
- And so Marcus and his sister were adopted and grew up in Sweden.
- And she says, why don't we, Why don't we adopt an orphan?
- Caesar posthumously, and this is a little weird, posthumously adopts Octavian as his son.
- But you, you were adopted into a Catholic family.
- And your daughter that you're talking about is Chica, who you adopted from your orphanage in Haiti.
- Along the way, they also adopt A child too.
- I think he's actually like his adopted brother.
- Louis Casman, the so-called adopted son of John Gotti.
- You're following like multiple kids that are adopted by wealthy smart couple.
Examples
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Pete Buttigieg and his husband have adopted twins.
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I fell totally in love with him and adopted him as my son.
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Whether I actually birth a baby or adopt, it's going to happen.
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When your mother died, he wanted to adopt you.
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I want to adopt you.
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So at the time that they adopted me, he was actually in law school.
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The Collins adopted him after his mother died when he was 2 years old.
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And so Marcus and his sister were adopted and grew up in Sweden.
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The 44 children who participated in this project were adopted from Eastern Europe.
Academic text (2015) -
After years of waiting, they finally adopted a child and welcomed him into their home.
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Etymology
The word adopt comes from Latin ad- 'to' and optare 'choose' and was used to mean 'choose as a son', so to adopt a child is to choose to take them into your family and raise them as your own.