adoptive

IPA: ʌdˈɑptɪv

Examples of "adoptive" in Sentences

"We call adoptive him who is stranger to the adopter."
* Absent or divorced parents; inadequate bonding in adoptive families
Danny picked up the phone and called their adoptive mother, June, on her cell phone, and told her what happened.
"As we speak, my officials are calling adoptive parents as we identify which children are on the flight," Kenney said Saturday.
The concept by which state and local law enforcement agencies still circumvent the Missouri Constitution is known as "adoptive forfeiture."
In short-term adoptive transfer experiments S1P1-deficient mature B cells accumulated in the BM, but a role for S1P1 in egress was not established
Second, if Diamond was correct then forager children raised in adoptive Western homes should become as smart as or, indeed, smarter than their white siblings.
Kalos said past efforts to use the technique, known as "adoptive T-cell transfer," failed either because the T-cell response was too weak or proved too toxic for normal tissue.
As Philolaus gave them laws concerning many other things, so did he upon adoption, which they call adoptive laws; and this he in particular did to preserve the number of families.
But, as the mere fact of the unction does not effect a radical unification (for this schools rejects absorption), the unification is made perfect, according to them, by what they call the adoptive birth of Christ -- the ultimate result of the unction of the Father.