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adopt·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
adopted, adoptiveadjective
acquired as your own by free choice
"my adopted state"; "an adoptive country"
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adopted
Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parents to the adoptive parents. Unlike guardianship or other systems designed for the care of the young, adoption is intended to effect a permanent change in status and as such requires societal recognition, either through legal or religious sanction. Historically, some societies have enacted specific laws governing adoption, while others used less formal means (notably contracts that specified inheritance rights and parental responsibilities without an accompanying transfer of filiation). Modern systems of adoption, arising in the 20th century, tend to be governed by comprehensive statutes and regulations.
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adopted
Adopted refers to the act of legally taking on the parental responsibilities for someone else's child and bringing them into one's family as their own. It can also refer to something that has been chosen or taken on, such as a culture, policy, method, principle, etc.
Webster Dictionary
Adopted
of Adopt
Adoptedadjective
taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'adopted' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2014
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Rank popularity for the word 'adopted' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3346
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of adopted in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of adopted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of adopted in a Sentence
Chief Executive Officer Glenn Chisholm:
Even companies that have successfully adopted single sign-on and multi-factor authentication technologies are scrambling to understand and secure what employees do after they log in.
We partner with hundreds of shelters throughout the country who are facing overpopulation and we move those animals to places in the country where they have an increased chance of being adopted.
The Justice Department on Monday:
Having chosen this supremely unusual means of enforcing its unconstitutional law, Texas bears the obligation to identify an alternative form of injunctive relief if it is dissatisfied with the particular mechanism adopted by the district court. Tellingly, Texas has not done so.
It's now been five years since Common Core was adopted. And the truth is that it's simply not working, it has brought only confusion and frustration to our parents. And has brought distance between our teachers and the communities where they work.
The real problem is California has adopted policies that let criminals continue to commit crimes and get let right out, californians are tired of Los Angeles, and he would love to distract them.
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