Adopts

Whenever he adopts a new business strategy, his employees fear for their jobs.

Millicent adopts one new baby from a foreign country every year. It's a lot of effort to have someone live with you and shit on your carpet.

A good Tatoeba contributor adopts orphaned sentences so the rest of us can focus on Christopher Columbus and his zany antics.

He often adopts the behaviours and speech patterns that characterise the advantaged.

He often adopts the behaviors and speech patterns that characterize the advantaged.

Mountaineering is chock-a-block with terms that never need translating, because every mountaineer adopts them.

Israel is a multi-party parliamentary republic and a liberal democracy that adopts universal suffrage.

There can be no peace if national policy adopts as a deliberate instrument the dispersion all over the world of millions of helpless and persecuted wanderers with no place to lay their heads.

She adopts her customary seductive demeanour toward males.

It's true that Christmas adopts aspects of Saturnalia, which you are free to celebrate if you don't want to be called a cultural Christian, although your success may be limited.