Adopts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ADOPTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• choose (someone) as a candidate for office
• formally approve or accept (a report or suggestion)
• choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action)
• take on or assume (an attitude or position)
• (of a local authority) accept responsibility for the maintenance of (a road).
• choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence.
• legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own

Words related to ADOPTS

adopt8 adopted11 adopting12

Words that contain ADOPTS

readopts11 preadopts14

How to use ADOPTS in a sentence

• He ardently adopts everything which claims to be a novelty, but is not learned enough to know that what he supposes to be new has been exploded over and over again.
• In the case of fine arts there is, in the range of the means which art adopts, a certain limit, and beyond it illusion is impossible.
• Yet a truth is equally solemn whatever figure or example its exponent adopts.
• If he adopts the Turkish philosophy he must be content with the Turkish result.
• Bright American boy, living with his widowed mother, whose grandfather, Lord Fauntleroy, sends for and adopts him.
• It adopts a simple, direct, natural way of unfolding the subject, and cannot fail to interest the children in all they see around them.
• Kobad adopts the new Religion, and attempts to impose it on the Armenians.
• I think you can advocate the cause it adopts more consistently, more powerfully, and more wisely than any other editor now in India.
• A millionaire in India, who loses his own son, adopts the hero of the novel, dies and leaves him the great estate.
• In this he adopts the principles of Gluck, thus breaking away from the wretched style of the Italian opera of the period, although the work itself was written in Italian.
• Why? Because in the pulpit he adopts an artificial tone of voice.
• The attitude it adopts towards women would be in itself sufficient to justify this assertion.
• Everett, must be allowed to savour a little of the extravagance of theory, Eichorn adopts it.
• What is the meaning of this? A man whose conduct has always been reasonable and unexceptionable, suddenly adopts the language of a lunatic.
• If one side succeeds with a trick, the other immediately adopts it.
• His intense thoughts, delicate emotions, and burning passions are half concealed in the form he adopts for their expression.
• This excellent botanist, at the same time, adopts M.
• He adopts it, indeed, from a very low origin, and a still lower present condition.
• In its very organization, it adopts a broad and most effective principle in restraint of the power of mere majorities.
• I desire that the broad waves of that wide sea should continue to roll between us and the influence of those foreign principles and foreign precedents which he so eagerly adopts.
• This must necessarily happen whenever a great creative artist adopts, for reasons of his own, and takes into his work any merely outward and formal convention.
• Therefore she makes such friendships and adopts such policies as will bring to her the revenues she thinks she must have for the prosecution of her work.
• And it is not possible to excuse any man because of the bond of matrimony, which may hold him in his old age, from turning to Religion, even as he who adopts the habit of St.
• He quotes them continually, and in some of his works adopts their division into books and chapters.
• Such words of doubtful signification must be interpreted from the doctrine of the church which adopts them.

Similar words containing ADOPT without suffix s

adopt8 adopted11 adoptee10 adopter10 readopt10 adoptees11 adopters11 adopting12 adoption11 adoptive14 preadopt13 readopts11 adoptable14 adoptions12 adoptious12 preadopts14 readopted13 unadopted13 adoptively19 preadopted16 readopting14 readoption13 adoptianism16 adoptianist14 adoptionism16 adoptionist14 preadopting17 readoptions14 unadoptable16 adoptability20 adoptianisms17 adoptianists15 adoptionisms17 adoptionists15 adoptabilities19

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