How to Use adoptee in a Sentence

adoptee

noun
  • While these issues are complex enough, there's another challenge for female adoptees.
    Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 May 2024
  • For the first time, adoptees could learn the names of birth parents.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2018
  • What does bug her are movies and shows in which adoptees are other than normal kids.
    John Anderson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
  • That slip of paper contains the name of the adoptee’s birth mother as well as the name they were given at birth.
    Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 31 May 2021
  • Herrick spoke to The Times in 2021 about being an Asian adoptee raised by white parents.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The first recorded placement of an African American adoptee in a white home was in 1948.
    Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The only way to get around this is if an adoptee obtains a redacted copy of their adoption record.
    Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 4 May 2021
  • The paternity suit is the first to be brought by an overseas adoptee in South Korea.
    NBC News, 4 June 2020
  • The adoptee offerings don’t include traits that can be ordered a la carte.
    Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But the vast majority of adoptees did not pass through the state orphanages.
    Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Many of Ranum’s clients are adoptees who want to learn more about their birth family and fill in gaps in their health history.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Joy Ride, a new film about an Asian American adoptee and her friends going to China, seemed primed to replay the trope.
    Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 15 July 2023
  • McPherson was raised as one of five adoptees in a white family home in Sturgis, South Dakota.
    Catherine Chapman, NBC News, 6 June 2017
  • Each member has a claim to fame: the first to help an adoptee find her biological mother, the first to identify a body, the first to find a killer’s full name.
    Heather Murphy, New York Times, 1 July 2019
  • If the law is passed, Connecticut would become the tenth state to have unrestricted access for adult adoptees.
    Sarah Cody, courant.com, 2 June 2017
  • But there just wasn’t as much awareness about the importance of preserving an adoptee’s culture.
    The Cut, The Cut, 21 June 2018
  • Sonali, for instance, an Indian adoptee in New Zealand, was born to a teenager in 1974.
    Bhavya Dore, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Zune had written about his search on Facebook, and other adoptees had started to contact him for advice.
    Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • In my life, my brother and I had an adoptee experience that was different from someone else right next to me.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The process, known in the adoptee community as coming out of the fog, can feel terrifying and unsettling.
    Erika Hayasaki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Playing football is a dream Brown has pursued since watching his older brother, an adoptee from Haiti, excel in the sport in Texas.
    J.c. Carnahan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 June 2018
  • There’s a trans influencer, a snobbish adoptee, and a supermarket clerk trying to turn her life around.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
  • One adoptee was a 7-year-old cocker spaniel mix selected by an Escondido mom and her son Jan. 12.
    Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But in letters to adoptees that were reviewed by The Times, the agency admitted that some of its paperwork had been invented.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • This meant talking about his identities as a gay, Asian American adoptee.
    Ben Kesslen, NBC News, 20 June 2019
  • Christy NaMee Eriksen will explore themes of loss and identity in a new body of work about her adolescent years as a Korean adoptee.
    Danielle Duclos, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2020
  • One of his most recent slob-adoptees is Princess Olympia of Greece, whose neat blonde iteration is an enviable example of the style.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023
  • By this time, the sisters were using techniques developed by Moore and others to help adoptees try to find relatives in a vast universe of strangers' spit.
    Libby Copeland, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2017
  • Some people are deeply offended that an adoptee would write about their experience, but those things are not going to stop me.
    Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Hers was, in some ways, the opposite journey of adoptees such as Steve, who wanted so badly to know his biological family.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024

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