Crossword-Solution: ADOPTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adoption | n. | The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. |
| Adoption | n. | Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. |
| Adoption | n. | The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
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Sentences with ADOPTION (5)
ARTICLE SIX All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
LARSEN concluded by offering a snapshot of current trends: continuing geometric growth in network capacity and number of users; slower development of applications; and glacial development and adoption of standards.
The alternative, you must be aware,—and its adoption will depend entirely on the decision which I am now about to make,—the alternative is his confinement, probably for the remainder of his life, in a public asylum for persons in his unfortunate state of mind.” “You cannot mean it!” shrieked Hepzibah.
The National Issues Forum on CompuServe has a message section called "Adoption Today." Addicted TV-viewers may be interested in alt.tv.twin-peaks or alt.tv.muppets on Usenet.
Was the old lady responding to his advances? Did the fact that he was a solitary guest augment his credit or diminish it? Were they ashamed to show him to other people, or did they wish to give him a sign of sudden adoption into their last reserve of favor? Newman was on his guard; he was watchful and conjectural; and yet at the same time he was vaguely indifferent.
Quotes with ADOPTION (3)
There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.
Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.
It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much easier things could have been for you, for me, and your folks, if literature like this had been around, say, five, ten years ago, when we could’ve all really used it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1957–2022).