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Recent Examples of adoptive
The Glass Dome focuses on Lejla, a criminologist who returns to her hometown in Sweden after her adoptive mother dies.
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Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Lejla also reunites with her adoptive father, Valter Ness, a former local police officer, rekindling a relationship marked by respect as well as an emotional distance that’s grown over time.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
His family escaped a totalitarian regime that persecuted them and now complain about opportunistic and culturally incompatible immigrants who seek to transform their adoptive country into a version of their regressive, Jew-hating, theocratic homelands.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
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River otter who gave adoptive pups ‘second chance’ at life dies at Oregon zoo
May 1, 2025 5:16 PM
This story was originally published May 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
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Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Lejla also reunites with her adoptive father, Valter Ness, a former local police officer, rekindling a relationship marked by respect as well as an emotional distance that’s grown over time.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
His family escaped a totalitarian regime that persecuted them and now complain about opportunistic and culturally incompatible immigrants who seek to transform their adoptive country into a version of their regressive, Jew-hating, theocratic homelands.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
What to know May 2, 2025 6:12 PM Read Next
National
River otter who gave adoptive pups ‘second chance’ at life dies at Oregon zoo
May 1, 2025 5:16 PM
This story was originally published May 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adoptive
adopted
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The Amazon founder was previously married to Mackenzie Scott from 1993 to 2019, and the couple share three sons and an adopted daughter.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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His adopted daughter, Sandra Correia Lopes, 12, weighs just 12 kilograms, or 26 pounds, and falls sick frequently.—
Sui-Lee Wee,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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