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Crossword-Solution: ADOPTS 6 letters, 69 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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ADOPTS anagram ADSPOT, SPOTAD

We have 69 clues for the answer “ADOPTS”

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Rescues from a shelter 1 answer
Embraces, as a philosophy 1 answer
Enlarges a family, in a way 1 answer
Takes in opening band 1 answer
Expands the family, perhaps 1 answer
Gets pets, maybe 1 answer
Goes abroad for a baby, perhaps 1 answer
Makes one's own 1 answer
Takes in as one's own 1 answer
Takes in a rescue pet 1 answer
Raises without having had 1 answer
Takes in a rescue dog 1 answer
Rescues a foundling, say 1 answer
Rescues a shelter dog, say 1 answer
Embraces as one's own 1 answer
Rescues from the pet shelter, say 1 answer
Rescues from the pound 1 answer
Rescues from the pound, say 1 answer
Selects and takes. 1 answer
Starts using 1 answer
Takes an orphan 1 answer
Takes home from the pound, say 1 answer
Takes by choice. 1 answer
Takes home a furry friend 1 answer
Takes home from a pet shelter 1 answer
Takes home from a shelter, say 1 answer
Takes home from the pound 1 answer
Takes in, as a rescue dog 1 answer
Votes to enact 1 answer
Votes to approve 1 answer
Votes to accept 1 answer
Takes up or takes in 1 answer
Takes on or in 1 answer
Takes into one's family 1 answer
Accepts formally 1 answer
Accepts formally, as a resolution 1 answer
Accepts, as a report. 1 answer
Accepts, as a resolution 1 answer
Takes in, as a shelter cat 1 answer
Adds to the family 1 answer
Becomes a parent 1 answer
Becomes a parent not by childbirth 1 answer
Becomes a parent, in a way 1 answer
Becomes parents, in a way 1 answer
Begins to follow, as a philosophy 1 answer
Brings home a new pet 1 answer
Brings into the family 1 answer
Takes in permanently 1 answer
Chooses for oneself 1 answer
Decides to start using 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble ADOPTS6-letter words that start with A6-letter words that end in S6-letter words containing DO6-letter words containing TS6-letter words with A and D

Sentences with ADOPTS (5)

Country miss adopts the more material media of taking a ghastly fence, whistling, or making your blood run cold by appearing to risk her neck.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Recalled to my senses by the shock, I fell back in the attitude every boy under these circumstances instinctively adopts--both elbows well up over the ears.
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 2008
But let the man learn to love a woman as far as he is capable of love; and for this random affection of the body there is substituted a steady determination, a consent of all his powers and faculties, which supersedes, adopts, and commands the other.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Britain is altogether small, the mere taproot of her extended empire: Scotland, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous.
Memories and Portraits Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
These are the sufficient justifications for any young man or woman who adopts it as the business of his life.
Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson 2012

Quotes with ADOPTS (3)

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, however, when justice demands the suspension of freedom. Then terror, on a grand or small scale, makes its appearance to consummate the revolution. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. But one day nostalgia takes up arms …
Albert Camus The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
An artist adopts a radically different view regarding the importance of time than a businessperson does. Instead of perceiving time as a merchantable facet doled out incrementally according to marketplace demands, an artist portrays time as an agent of destruction. The irrevocability of time frames the human condition. Time might the medium of all human experience, but its passage obscures and eventually obliterates all human endeavors. Time unchecked leads to a blank slate o…
Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad Scrolls
Most European nations identify themselves with eagles or lions, with some predator or creature of the air, ascendant and belligerent. I would like to visit the country which adopts the groundhog as its mascot, somewhere peaceful, some place that curls against the secrets of the earth, a little Belgium of the imagination, tables piled high with cakes, the Sunday bells ringing (not too loudly), the light falling on rolling hillocks studded with salad greens.
David Brendan Hopes Bird Songs of the Mesozoic: A Day Hiker's Guide to the Nearby Wild
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 142 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).