adopted child
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Every cuckoo is an adopted child -- raised by foster parents, into whose nest the cuckoo mother smuggled her egg.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
NRS removed the information 36 hours after a mother complained it could endanger her adopted child.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023
“The Official Story” is about a middle-class Buenos Aires couple who realize that their illegally adopted child may have been born to one of the desaparecidas.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023
An adopted child, she ran out and started walking with them.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023
Lewis had two marriages that ended in divorce, and in 1918, in her mid-fifties, she was raising a ten-year-old adopted child.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
