Crossword-Solution: ADOPTED 7 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Adopted imp. & p. p. of Adopt
Adopted a. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted
son, citizen, country, word.

We have 44 clues for the answer “ADOPTED”

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Put into effect, as a resolution 1 answer
Like Clark Kent and Princess Leia 1 answer
Like Jane Eyre and Princess Leia 1 answer
Like Steve Jobs and Moses 1 answer
Like many a son or daughter 1 answer
Like many pets 1 answer
Made one's own 1 answer
Not a part of from the start 1 answer
Not biological 1 answer
Passed, as a proposition 1 answer
Like a pet dog from a pound 1 answer
Taken for one's own 1 answer
Taken into the clan 1 answer
Took for one's own 1 answer
Took home a "furever friend," say 1 answer
Voted to accept 1 answer
Welcomed into the family 1 answer
Welcomed to the family 1 answer
legally made a part of a family 1 answer
Like Bill Clinton or, eventually, Oliver Twist 1 answer
Accepted by vote 1 answer
Accepted, as a resolution 1 answer
Acquired as your own by free choice 1 answer
Brought home, as a shelter dog 1 answer
Brought into the family 1 answer
Enlarged one's family, in a way 1 answer
Given a home 1 answer
Got out of a shelter 1 answer
Like Clark Kent and Bamm-Bamm Rubble 1 answer
Claimed as one's own 2 answers
Passed, as legislation 2 answers
Taken on 2 answers
Espoused 3 answers
Took as one's own 3 answers
Took up 3 answers
filial 7 answers
Took on 7 answers
Embraced 8 answers
A SAYING THAT IS WIDELY ACCEPTED ON ITS OWN MERITS 10 answers
A CHAMP'S ASSUMED NAME AS FINALLY TAKEN 10 answers
AN ADOPTIVE COUNTRY 11 answers
Taken in 12 answers
Took in 29 answers
Assumed 73 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ADOPTED (5)

Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the _inch,_ and no precaution could prevent me from taking the _ell._ The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Box 1014, Addis Ababa); telephone [251] (01) 550666 _#_Flag: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), yellow, and red; Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa and the colors of her flag were so often adopted by other African countries upon independence that they became known as the pan-African colors _*_Economy _#_Overview: Ethiopia is one of the poorest and least developed countries in Africa.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Bathsheba too had her sample-bags, and by degrees adopted the professional pour into the hand—holding up the grains in her narrow palm for inspection, in perfect Casterbridge manner.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Since media other than tape are now frequently used, the more descriptive name "Dynamic Debugging Technique" has been adopted, retaining the DDT abbreviation.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with ADOPTED (3)

Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.
Criss Jami Salome: In Every Inch In Every Mile
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.
Abhijit Naskar I Am The Thread: My Mission
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 51 times in crossword archives (1978–2024).