Adopted

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  • adjective. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own.
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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of adopt.
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  • adjective. acquired as your own by free choice
  • Word Usage
    "“Supreme Emergency” is a phrase adopted by Walzer from a 1939 speech by Winston Churchill in an attempt to reconcile just war ethics with the killing of innocent civilians entailed in the nighttime bombing of German cities."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    co-opted  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-stem
    adopt