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Crossword-Solution: ADOPT 5 letters, 251 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Adopt v. t. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir,
friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other
parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Adopt v. t. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally;
to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of
another; these resolutions were adopted.

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ADOPT anagram TPODA

We have 251 clues for the answer “ADOPT”

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"___, Don't Shop" (animal rescue slogan) 1 answer
"___, don't shop" (pet fostering slogan) 1 answer
Accept a plan 1 answer
Accept as one's own 1 answer
Accept formally 1 answer
Accept formally and put into effect 1 answer
Accept, as a report. 1 answer
Acquire, as a pet from the shelter 1 answer
Add a stranger to the family 1 answer
Add to the family, in a way 1 answer
Add to the family, perhaps 1 answer
Add to the household 1 answer
Animal shelter's plea 1 answer
Appropriate, as an idea 1 answer
Approve, as a plan 1 answer
Assume as one's own 1 answer
Become a mother, maybe 1 answer
Become a new father, in a way 1 answer
Become a parent of, in court 1 answer
Become a parent to 1 answer
Become parents 1 answer
Become parents overnight 1 answer
Become parents to 1 answer
Become parents, in a way 1 answer
Become the legal parent of 1 answer
Begin using 1 answer
Bring home a shelter pet 1 answer
Bring home a stray cat 1 answer
Bring home from a shelter 1 answer
Bring home from an animal shelter 1 answer
Bring home from the pet shelter, say 1 answer
Bring home from the pound 1 answer
Bring home from the shelter 1 answer
Bring in, as a boxer to one's home 1 answer
Bring into the family 1 answer
Choose a textbook series 1 answer
Choose and follow (a course). 1 answer
Choose and take 1 answer
Choose for keeps 1 answer
Choose, as a policy 1 answer
Choose, as a textbook series 1 answer
Decide to use 1 answer
Decide to use, as a policy 1 answer
Embrace as one's own 1 answer
Embrace, as a policy 1 answer
Embrace, as ideas 1 answer
Emulate Madonna 1 answer
Emulate Mia 1 answer
Eschew a breeder, say 1 answer
Expand the family, in a way 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ADOPT (5)

For instance, the slaveholders not only like to see the slave drink of his own accord, but will adopt various plans to make him drunk.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Joseph Saidu MOMOH; note--constitutional referendum to adopt a multiparty system is scheduled for June 1991 _#_Suffrage: universal at age 18 _#_Elections: President--last held 1 October 1985 (next to be held October 1992); results--Gen.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
The performer seemed quite at home anywhere between a horse’s head and its tail, and the necessity for this abnormal attitude having ceased with the passage of the plantation, she began to adopt another, even more obviously convenient than the first.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The software is undergoing constant development; once it reaches a stable state, other sites will be encouraged to adopt it and provide the service also.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
The economy slowed in 1990-91, however, and Bridgetown's declining hard currency reserves and inability to finance its deficits have caused it to adopt an austere economic reform program.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

Quotes with ADOPT (3)

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
Anais Nin The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl R. Popper
Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and …
Epictetus The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 422 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).