adoptive parent
noun
: one's parent by adoption : a parent who has adopted a child
She is their adopted daughter, which makes them her adoptive parents.
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Nearby is a century-spanning conversation of weaving practices, featuring a knit woven by Carver, who learned the craft from his adoptive parent Mariah Watkins, beside Diedrick Brackens’s tapestry opening tombs beneath the heart (2018).
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Evan Nicole Brown, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
In the pic, Roz is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
That way, the human being growing inside her gets to live life and an adoptive parent gets a child to raise.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
For the 2024-2025 form, anyone who needs to provide information, such as the student’s spouse, biological or adoptive parent, or the parent’s spouse, must have an individual FSA ID.
—TIME, 5 Jan. 2024
Most people would think a social worker to be particularly qualified to serve as an adoptive parent.
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
Though the violence is cartoonish and characters are never seriously hurt, some aspects — like a missing parent, a young girl alone and an uncaring adoptive parent — could worry younger or more sensitive viewers.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
But is there something suspicious about the fever pitch of such discussions, which often take place among people who have never had—and never will have—direct personal experience with being an adoptive parent or an adoptee?
—Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
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Evan Nicole Brown, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
In the pic, Roz is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
That way, the human being growing inside her gets to live life and an adoptive parent gets a child to raise.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
For the 2024-2025 form, anyone who needs to provide information, such as the student’s spouse, biological or adoptive parent, or the parent’s spouse, must have an individual FSA ID.
—TIME, 5 Jan. 2024
Most people would think a social worker to be particularly qualified to serve as an adoptive parent.
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
Though the violence is cartoonish and characters are never seriously hurt, some aspects — like a missing parent, a young girl alone and an uncaring adoptive parent — could worry younger or more sensitive viewers.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
But is there something suspicious about the fever pitch of such discussions, which often take place among people who have never had—and never will have—direct personal experience with being an adoptive parent or an adoptee?
—Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
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“Adoptive parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adoptive%20parent. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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