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adopt
Verb
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If you adopt something, you choose and begin to use it instead of what you used in the past.
Now that we know they work, it is important that these policies be adopted by other districts.
The outcome depends entirely on the approach you adopt.
The technology developed in Asia has since been adopted by the telephone systems in Japan and much of the rest of Western Europe.
When she moved out west, she adopted a new name.
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If you adopt a child, you make them part of your own family.
They finally quit trying to have their own child and ended up adopting a baby girl.
a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
minefield
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noun
a region in which explosives mines have been placed