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adopt English

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adopt

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. 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.

adopt

(= follow, espouse) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans She followed the feminist movement The candidate espouses Republican ideals (= take up) take up and practice as one's own take into one's family They adopted two children from Nicaragua (= assume, take on) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities When will the new President assume office? (= assume, take on, take) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect His voice took on a sad tone The story took a new turn he adopted an air of superiority She assumed strange manners The gods assume human or animal form in these fables (= embrace) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own She embraced Catholicism They adopted the Jewish faith put into dramatic form adopt a book for a screenplay

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adopt · verb

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Simple sentences

My wife wants to adopt a child.
How can I improve my English, is there any easy way that I can adopt to improve it?
If you can't have children, you could always adopt.
You will save time if you adopt this new procedure.
My wife wanted to adopt a child.
My advice is to adopt a new line.
The couple decided to adopt an orphan.
They decided to adopt a child rather than having one of their own.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we dislike.
The couple had made a decision to adopt a child.
Since they had no children of their own, they decided to adopt a girl.
Since this isn't your native language, I'd suggest unowning this sentence, leaving it free for a native speaker to adopt. This way we can all be confident that it's a good sentence.
If it is not absolutely necessary to enact a law, it is absolutely necessary to not adopt a law.
That's the wrong tone to adopt with me.
This is one of the reasons why the Tatoeba Project asks members not to adopt orphan sentences in languages other than their own native language.
We will adopt your method at our school.
Since they had no children of their own, they decided to adopt a little girl.
I think it's better for us to adopt his plan.
Tom was hoping the committee would adopt his proposal.
I can't adopt your view.
We've decided to adopt a child.
Tom and Mary decided to adopt John.
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Movie subtitles

Yeah, yeah, like, by the end of this, they're going to want to adopt you.
Well, of course, if you want to adopt that attitude.
I must admit that your intent to adopt Ernest came at the right moment.
Because I want to adopt Ernest.
He shall adopt him.
Lucy, haven't you perfectly well understood that I don't intend to go into a business or adopt a profession?
George! You struck just the right treatment to adopt, you're doing just the right thing.
Naturally, we will oppose any move to adopt this boy.
What's he want you to do, adopt him?
Can I adopt your little kitten?
Maybe you could adopt one.
Who's gonna adopt Roderigues?
Once they do, they adopt an extraordinary military tactic.
King Charles wishes to adopt Marshal Bernadotte as his beloved son. and receive him as a Crown Princes.
I'll adopt Tina legally.
Adopt?
You adopt Tina?
Perhaps our Timba will adopt the poor little thing.
I expected you to counsel Mrs. Quimp, not to adopt her.
Why can't you adopt it?
Bessie Watty. Do you mean to say that if I should adopt this child.
You are what? I am going to adopt the child. What the devil do you take me for.
And even adopt her name.
As a matter of fact, I was gonna adopt you if you could only cook.
We should adopt the system before Kaihatsu does.
Someone will adopt it.
I can become Miss Apley again and adopt them.
I guess I can adopt my own children.
If you're going to adopt that tone.
Have you decided to adopt me or something?
They want to adopt a baby?
About eight months. And you tried to adopt a child!
Great Scott, if we were foolish enough. to swallow that other venal belief. nobody would ever either adopt a child or even have children of their own. like that sweet little girl she has, for example.

News and current affairs

Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.
With French leadership, 2011 offers a golden opportunity for the most important capital markets to adopt clear, precise rules requiring full financial disclosure by extractive-industry companies to governmental authorities.
As a result, corporate capitalism is rapidly becoming obsolete, replaced by a creative capitalism in which entrepreneurship, combined with a greater willingness to adopt innovations, transforms the business landscape.
Increasing risk aversion is leading economic agents to adopt a wait-and-see stance that makes the slowdown partly self-fulfilling.
No one forced Argentina to adopt the currency board devised by Domingo Cavallo, the former economy minister, which pegged the peso to the dollar at a fixed exchange rate of one to one.
They realize that the al-Saud must choose: continue on the narrow path of repression and ethnic and religious intolerance, or adopt a more open and inclusive policy.
Intransigent opposition by anti-science, anti-technology activists - Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and a few other groups - has spurred already risk-averse regulators to adopt an overly cautious approach that has stalled approvals.
The more that these countries can invest while ensuring macroeconomic stability and balance-of-payments sustainability, the faster they can adopt better technology and production processes.
It is not too late to adopt it.
Meanwhile, people would be asked to adopt as many dogs as possible.
Lukashenko may have to adopt the Russian ruble, at least as a reserve currency.
Scientists and engineers who work on climate change stress that governments need to adopt two main responses.
The world's governments will meet in Montreal at the end of November to plot the next steps, including specific measures that the world could adopt if the Bush administration abandoned its willful neglect of this critical issue.
In the UK, the diplomatic spat served as an occasion for the British press to air criticism from those who believe that the government should adopt a stronger stance on China.
Productivity growth increased substantially in these countries over time, which persuaded Continental Europe to adopt reforms of its own, often pushed by the European Commission.
Developing countries have lagged behind in this process, but, with the common threat of global warming, there is now growing pressure to adopt conservation policies.
In such a difficult domestic situation, North Korea's leaders may adopt more hostile policies to obtain economic aid from both South Korea and the United States.
At this stage, the best course would be to adopt a credible multi-year plan, based on reasonable but conservative growth assumptions, to reduce deficits to sustainable levels and limit the accumulation of public debt.
Indeed, the only viable long-term strategy to adopt, therefore, is to stop trying to isolate Iran and instead nudge Iranians into engaging more with modern Asia.
Such an approach is also compatible with Chinese policy, which has been to pressure North Korea to adopt its model of economic reform.
To save the planet, we need to induce power suppliers to adopt low-carbon energy sources despite coal's lower price and greater ease of use.
The research of Madrian and her colleagues suggests that the new pension plans will improve saving in the countries that adopt them.
They can adopt a longer time horizon, because, unlike private fund managers, they do not have to satisfy impatient investors.
But its other intention was probably to stymie American efforts to adopt new United Nations sanctions on Iran.
What would be helpful in this respect is an objective FDI Protectionism Observatory that monitors FDI protectionist measures and names and shames countries that adopt them.

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