adoptive
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- adjective
- /əˈdɑptɪv/
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adoptivo
- My adoptive parents have always encouraged my dreams and aspirations.
- adoptive parents
- birth and adoptive parents
- an adoptive family
Well, so they set up the meeting and her and her adoptive mom who's just her other mom.
- Well, so they set up the meeting and her and her adoptive mom who's just her other mom.
- Marcus was obsessed with modelling his adoptive father, partly because he lost his birth father when he was very young.
- You've got adoptive parents of adopted children.
- My my, my adoptive parents gave up on me and kicked me out of the house.
- And you can study adoptive parents of those kids who share environment but not genes.
- Damn, you know, stepfather, adoptive father, you've ever.
- By that time lover, really husband and adoptive father of Theru as well.
- And the relationship, the the strained relationship with your adoptive brother.
- Then she grew up in in a huge family as an adoptive girl and adopted girl with my uncle.
Examples
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She loves her adoptive parents most deeply.
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He feels grateful for the love and support from his adoptive parents.
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So she found the adoptive family to take care of her.
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That would be my adoptive mom and dad, not me.
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By the time they are of school age, finding adoptive parents for them becomes next to impossible.
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And do you have any adoptive brothers and sisters?
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Our next orphan, Susan... was on her way to Namibia to meet her new adoptive parents.
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She often shares stories about her experiences with her adoptive family.
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Etymology
Adoptive comes from Latin parts ad- ('to') and optare ('to choose'), the same root as option and opt. That's why an adoptive parent or sibling is someone chosen by a family, by law or love, rather than by birth.