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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
adopt .
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Socialism is a system which one adopts from the outside, like all political or socio religious philosophies.
Think Progress » Passing Health Reform Would Contribute To Obama’s Deficit Reduction Goals 2010
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The solution he adopts is much like that of the late Stephen Jay Gould in his Rocks of Ages, namely that we must see religion as a support for morality and social well-being rather than a system that legitimately makes claims about objective reality.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate? Michael Ruse 2010
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The solution he adopts is much like that of the late Stephen Jay Gould in his Rocks of Ages, namely that we must see religion as a support for morality and social well-being rather than a system that legitimately makes claims about objective reality.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate? Michael Ruse 2010
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This is what I hope happens: Dunder-Mifflin adopts a new “work/life balance” initiative and allows Pam to work from home so we get to see her and the baby.
This week's cover: 'The Office' wedding exclusive! | EW.com 2009
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The Satanic Chapel adopts from the Universal Life Church but are a seperate entity from them, we are Satanic in nature and were also the first to coin the phrase “Processive Satanism”.
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Sadly, if Sarah Palin adopts McCain's views on the equal pay act, she pretty much would be saying exactly that.
Wages Rise as Respect for Women Falls — If You’re a Man - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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On the other hand, New Hampshire and abortion opponents lose to the extent that the new rule the Court adopts is not exactly identical to an as-applied challenge.
Balkinization 2006
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In the chapter that follows Elton's proposal, Emma searches for other analytical tools to supplement her analysis of Elton's actions, and the critical approach that she ultimately adopts is the one previously recommended to her by Knightleyclass:
Unanswerable Gallantry and Thick-Headed Nonsense: Rereading Box Hill 2000
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The Mantis curls her belly; lifts her wings like vertical sails; opens her saw-toothed arm-pieces; in short, adopts the spectral attitude which she employs when delivering battle.
The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Mr. Gladstone adopts from a German writer a view which is certainly not new to many in England, that "the Reformation, as a religious movement, took its shape in England, not in the sixteenth century but in the seventeenth."
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852
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