adopted child
Example Sentences
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Not only was the grown adopted child, Davonn Hodge, alive and well in Las Vegas, he was unaware of his direct connection to the classic record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
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
After arresting her in January, F.B.I. agents questioned her about her adopted child.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
“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
