Adopt and Support

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Adopt

Adopt verb - To take for one's own use (something originated by another).
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Support is a synonym for adopt in advocate topic. In some cases you can use "Support" instead a verb "Adopt", when it comes to topics like approve, take on.
Nearby Words: adoption, adopting, adoptive, adoptability, adopter

Support

Support verb - To promote the interests or cause of.
Usage example: though childless themselves, they support the local schools both by volunteering and by fiercely opposing funding cuts
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Adopt is a synonym for support. Sometimes you can use "Adopt" instead a verb "Support".
Nearby Words: supported, supporter, supporting, supportive, supportable

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habit adopt habit support habit
life adopt life support life
people adopt people support people
role adopt role support role
Other words: idea, children, child, son, daughter, lifestyle, sister.

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  • Literature / Bridget Jones Mark offers to marry her and adopt the baby, but by the end of the story it appears she's content to be a single mother with support from Daniel.
    Source: Literature / Bridget Jones
  • It's made even better during their S-rank support, where he proposes and tells her that it'll just be him, her, and all the little birds they can adopt!
    Source: Funny / Fire Emblem Awakening
  • The events in Teen Titans, wherein which two of the Titans' home support, Wendy & Marvin adopt a "Wonder Dog", contemplate their roles in the team and then are attacked by said Wonder Dog (who was really a demonic thing) which leaves Marvin dead and Wendy in a coma.
    Source: Dis Continuity / Comic Books
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