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) to adopt a title
If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your own.There are hundreds of people who want to adopt a child.əˈdɒpt VERB
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adoptować






Chris had received the news on the plane, and had had time to adopt Ginny's stance.Gaskin, Catherine The Ambassador's Women
Clearly Taylor feels her band is more free to adopt a different image.Glasgow Herald (2001)
Her back ached from lying in the unnatural position she had been forced to adopt.Martin, Joy The Image of Laura
I wanted to tell the story as honestly and as impartially as possible, trying to adopt a professional journalistic stance towards myself".Irish Times (2002)
In December, we were obliged to adopt a strategically defensive position," he says.Globe and Mail (2003)
It is still possible, of course, that Europe will sooner rather than later adopt its own missile defence system.Spiked
No, Walsh reflected with irony, nor to adopt a policy of deliberate inertia, calculated to push them into a riot.Parkes, Roger Riot
One piece of enlightened self-interest among the Glasgow hoteliers has been for some of them to adopt a school.Glasgow Herald (2002)
Something about this type of test forces me to adopt a persona not my own.Christopher Ross TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher (2001)
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