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adopted
adjective as in popular
adjective as in preferred
Example Sentences
The song was written by legendary composer John Williams and originally was called “Wide Receiver,” although NBC never adopted that name.
Eight years ago, James and his husband adopted two children under the age of six and have since adopted a third.
The US holiday - which falls this Friday - has been firmly adopted by UK retailers, and what was once a single day of sales has now spread to the weeks before and after.
That benchmark is the poverty line, created by a Social Security Administration economist, Mollie Orshansky, in 1963, and then adopted the next year by the White House.
Mr Leitch said many providers "adopted good practices" before but the guidance and the Steeper family's campaigning had "basically made this a mandatory obligation, and therefore everybody will sit up and take notice".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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