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
I had known that Katherine herself was an adopted child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
NRS removed the information 36 hours after a mother complained it could endanger her adopted child.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
Chandrachud, retorted: “But, Mr. Solicitor, the adopted child of a lesbian couple or a gay couple does not necessarily have to be lesbian or gay.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
“I know more of the history of Miss Havisham’s adopted child than Miss Havisham herself does, sir. I know her mother.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
