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."