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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.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
attitude
Noun
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Your attitude is your feelings and opinions, especially when your actions show how you feel.
He has a really bad attitude towards work.
A positive attitude can make life a lot easier.