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
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
An adopted child, she ran out and started walking with them.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 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
