adopted child

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The main points to know are that Mando is a bounty hunter for the good guys and Grogu is his Force-sensitive adopted child and apprentice.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

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

The mother's concern was that under certain circumstances, the website could allow people to find out the new name of an adopted child and track them down.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 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