Sample Sentences for
adopt
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    My grandparents adopted the American method of having one family name.
    adopted = took as their own
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    And they were my real brothers, not just sort of adopted ones.  (source)
    adopted = taken on
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    The travelers adopted the practice of arranging the animals in a circle at night, sleeping together in the center as protection against the nocturnal cold.  (source)
    adopted = took on
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    And this is the little girl you have adopted, I suppose?  (source)
    adopted = legally took on parental responsibilities for another person's child
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    He used his station to encourage people to adopt good habits and abandon practices he said were bad.†  (source)
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    George, I know you will think I am not—or was not—respectable, but it was before I met you, and I had to give him up for adoption and I could hardly bear to think of it and—  (source)
    adoption = the act of having someone other than the biological parents take on legal responsibilities of raising a child
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    "Pfiffikus!" she echoed, quickly adopting the appropriate cruelty that childhood seems to require.†  (source)
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    I'd only ever seen one black person, a little girl, the adoptive daughter of a family at church.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    At the lectern before the party faithful in New York City, the president adopts the chaste mien of an altar boy.†  (source)
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    Years of treatments, so many miscarriages, three failed adoptions ...we just need to let it go.†  (source)
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    You're a style leader, early adopter, all that.†  (source)
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    I think Jim adopted it as the name of his D and D character to impress her.†  (source)
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    So I asked Alex if I could adopt him, if he would be my grandson.†  (source)
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