"adopt" meaning in English

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      "form": "adopts",
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        "singular"
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      "form": "adopted",
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      "form": "adopted",
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        "participle"
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    },
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      "form": "adopting",
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        "participle"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Now that we know they work, it is important that these policies be adopted by other districts."
        },
        {
          "text": "The outcome depends entirely on the approach you adopt."
        },
        {
          "text": "The technology developed in Asia has since been adopted by the telephone systems in Japan and much of the rest of Western Europe."
        },
        {
          "text": "When she moved out west, she adopted a new name."
        }
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        "If you adopt something, you choose and begin to use it instead of what you used in the past."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They finally quit trying to have their own child and ended up adopting a baby girl."
        }
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        "If you adopt a child, you make them part of your own family."
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      "ipa": "/əˈdɑpt/",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈdɒpt/",
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        "UK"
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      "form": "adopted",
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        "participle"
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        "present",
        "participle"
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          "text": "Now that we know they work, it is important that these policies be adopted by other districts."
        },
        {
          "text": "The outcome depends entirely on the approach you adopt."
        },
        {
          "text": "The technology developed in Asia has since been adopted by the telephone systems in Japan and much of the rest of Western Europe."
        },
        {
          "text": "When she moved out west, she adopted a new name."
        }
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        "If you adopt something, you choose and begin to use it instead of what you used in the past."
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          "text": "They finally quit trying to have their own child and ended up adopting a baby girl."
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      "ipa": "/əˈdɒpt/",
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