adopted child
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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
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
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
