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How to pronounce adoptee in English?

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Type Words
Type of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
Derivation adopt

Examples of adoptee

adoptee
After the death of his mother, a Muslim learns that he is Jewish and an adoptee.
From the post-gazette.com
The 40-year deception of a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966.
From the post-gazette.com
An Indian adoptee from South Carolina found the columns online and contacted me.
From the sltrib.com
My status as adoptee already had me feeling like the odd one out in the family.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Nontraveling family members of the new adoptee often aren't vaccinated either.
From the denverpost.com
The adoptee should have the right to do what he wants about his birth parents.
From the parenting.blogs.nytimes.com
Indeed, says Betty Jean Lifton, an adoptee and the author of Lost and Found.
From the time.com
Meet a prospective adoptee in a monitored situation usually set up by the caseworker.
From the freep.com
Her specialties are adoptee and genealogy research and research journalism.
From the scienceblogs.com
More examples
  • Someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
  • Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another who is not kin and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities from the original parent or parents. ...
  • A person who joins a family via adoption.
  • An adopted person. Some adopted persons object to being called an "adoptee" because: (1) It distinguishes an adopted child from a birth child in the same family. (One does not say, "This is my birth son, Johnny. ...