Wondering how to use Adopt in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as take or assume.
Adopt in a sentence
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Adopt meaning
- To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
- To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Synonyms of Adopt
Example sentences (20)
As a child actor, Quan followed his manager's advice to adopt an Americanized name, so he went by Jonathan Ke Quan.
He charged police officers nationwide to adopt positive attitude to work for effective service delivery to Nigerians.
I figure if a few of us adopt the same habit as the person in the story, we may have a miraculously clean Ocean Grove.
Community groups around Ireland are encouraged to apply to join The Heritage Council’s Adopt a Monument scheme.
Earlier this year in May, the government faced over plans to adopt a Kremlin-style bill on purported foreign influence.
From warfare and sports to religion and political movements, we adopt signals to tell others something about ourselves.
Cook, who was elected in 2022 and sponsored the revocation, said there is no plan to adopt that alternative or any other.
Councilman Daniel Ruggles made the motion to adopt the resolution and the City Council passed it unanimously.
He also asked that the other GOP candidates adopt his Anti-Woke Policy Pledge, a list of agenda items Ramaswamy proposed.
Although many apps did not adopt the themed icon, Android 13 uses the same color scheme to theme app icons.
Avoid pressuring anyone else to adopt your strategies — you probably wouldn’t like it if they pushed back!
He wanted to see it before the work to upgrade it through his Adopt-a-School Foundation commences on 2024.
As more organizations adopt a devops strategy, it stands to reason that demand for these tools will rise.
And unless the major fashion weeks with giant global brands adopt these changes, the net effect will probably be pretty small.
China hoped Australia would adopt an "objective and fair" attitude towards Chinese firms investing and operating in Australia.
As more states begin to adopt these pieces of legislation, more and more Americans will have greater access to estate planning.
But majority Republicans on the panel voted to adopt the GOP-drawn maps as the set they’ll work from to develop the final maps.
By Gisele Gamble Animals Best Friends I’ve never understood people’s tendencies to only adopt animals with light-colored coats.
But there have been cases of palm oil being sold to the so-called leakage market, which doesn’t adopt a no-deforestation policy.
Gino and his family adopted a pitbull mix, which staff describe as one of the hardest breeds to adopt.
Phrases with adopt
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Common combinations with adopt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to adopt 111×
- adopt the 26×
- adopt new 9×
- adopt an 8×
- and adopt 7×
- would adopt 5×
- adopt more 5×
- should adopt 5×
- not adopt 4×
- adopt it 3×
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