Synonyms for adopted
adopt·ed

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1. adopted, adoptiveadjective

   acquired as your own by free choice

   "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country"

   Synonyms:
   adoptive

   Antonyms:
   native, connatural, inbred, inborn

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1. took over

   Submitted by anonymous on April 6, 2021  

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1. List of paraphrases for "adopted":

   approved, passed, taken, enacted, adoption, adopts, accepted, arrested, endorsed, approves, introduced, agreed, through, adopt, embraced, took, order, promulgated, adoptee, undertaken, carried, stopped, baselined, arrêté, voted, made, issued

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1. Ozlem Derici:

   The risk of capital flight remains unless the measures adopted during the state of emergency are revealed clearly.

2. Kimberly Tyson:

   When a child is adopted at a very young age, or when they were born, if they’ve always heard about their adoption story, it becomes less of an issue because they always knew they were adopted.

3. Nasrin Sotoudeh:

   We are hopeful that the same approach that was adopted by the Iranian government to resolve international animosity, can be used to resolve differences within the country.

4. Laurie Johnson:

   We’ve had people call us afterwards or send us emails with pictures of their adopted dogs saying, ‘thank you for the referral,’ it’s definitely exponential in its reach of adoptive homes.

5. Frank Melum:

   Many of the 2030 targets reflect policies that have already been adopted, for example renewable targets and power plant regulations, so in a way countries are promising what they are fairly confident they can deliver on, ambitions could increase should they take on new measures, but for every percentage point it will get harder.