Antonyms for adoptedadopt·ed

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1. adopted, adoptiveadjective

   acquired as your own by free choice

   "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country"

   Antonyms:
   native, connatural, inbred, inborn

   Synonyms:
   adoptive

How to use adopted in a sentence?

1. Jill Bannik-Brecht:

   I used to work for a high-kill animal shelter, and I knew what happened to the old dogs when they came in. I remember one dog who animal control literally picked up from the side of his dead owner’s body, and he didn’t even have an opportunity to be adopted. He was put to sleep because we didn’t have space.

2. Daniel Reitz:

   I was adopted at age 9. I came from a sexually abusive family, they separated me and my brothers at a really young age and it tore me apart really bad.

3. Donald Cox:

   I think it is sort of the end game for all of this legislation that's being adopted around the country and that is to shut down all clinics that provide abortions, throughout the country, people who are opposed to abortions are coming up with all manner of regulatory burdens that have nothing to do with the health of the women and everything to do with the politics of the moment.

4. Chief Executive Officer Glenn Chisholm:

   Even companies that have successfully adopted single sign-on and multi-factor authentication technologies are scrambling to understand and secure what employees do after they log in.

5. Jerry Brown:

   I am deeply disappointed that the CalPERS Board reversed course and adopted an irresponsible plan that will only keep the system dependent on unrealistic investment returns, this approach will expose the fund to an unacceptable level of risk in the coming years.

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