adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an adopted child (= legally made part of a family that he or she was not born into )
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I didn’t find out that I was an adopted child until years later.
your adopted country (= that you have chosen to live in permanently )
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I felt proud of my adopted country, America.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
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Britain's adopted children had come of age.
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For adopted children that quest may include tracing their natural or birth parents.
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This includes adopted children or children accepted into the family.
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If we believe this, I think it makes the challenge of bringing up adopted children an easier task.
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He comments: The adopted child can count upon help and friendship from a larger circle than the ordinary child.
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Many women have permanently or temporarily adopted children from other families and are establishing community child-care facilities.
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At adolescence, adopted children have the normal crop of teenage problems.
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Consequently, they are roughly equivalent to the transracially adopted children .
country
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In spite of an inauspicious beginning, Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country .
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Klein prided himself on being a loyal subject who had served his adopted country with honour.
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It's a historical commonplace that this extraordinary cohort of Hitler's unwanted transformed their adopted country .
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We know what Mary's adopted country thought.
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And thus this odyssey began, encompassing almost 50 years in the strange new culture of her adopted country .
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Many refugee servicemen were decorated and many gave their lives to their adopted country .
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Though he's proud of his adopted country , he's angry that the Foreign Secretary has defended the raid.
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He never played a game for his adopted country .
daughter
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In addition, one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame.
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Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
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Allen said he was still in love with Soon-Yi, Mia's 21-year-old adopted daughter .
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The couple split up after Farrow saw nude pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, 21, taken by Allen.
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The film director said a threat was made after Mia discovered he was having an affair with her adopted daughter .
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An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman.
son
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In addition, one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame.
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Not only had David Anthony been her grandfather's name, but the name he had given his adopted son .
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We are not abandoned waifs or orphans, but adopted sons and daughters in a growing family.
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Because his adopted son was the father of Marie O'Donnell's baby?
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When I raised the question with Richard he readily agreed to become my adopted son .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Browns have one adopted son.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
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But Dan Crawley's adopted niece clearly shared Henry's faith in the equine world.
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Even Bush's adopted home state of Texas gave Clinton a five percent lead.
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He had been roaming New Orleans, his adopted city, for two days.
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If we believe this, I think it makes the challenge of bringing up adopted children an easier task.
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Robbie had never met any of Caro's adopted family.
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The couple split up after Farrow saw nude pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, 21, taken by Allen.