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adopted child



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Adoption leave: Players and coaches will receive a minimum of eight weeks' paid absence if an adopted child is younger than two years old.

From BBC • May 31, 2024

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

An adopted child, she ran out and started walking with them.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

“I mean, he has lived out a value of inclusion in his life, in his family. He has an adopted child from Jamaica. I just don’t think that people really have fully investigated the man.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 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




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