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Adopt Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is ASSUME which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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verb

• take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof

• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

• take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person

• occupy or take on

• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

• make a pretence of

• take up someone's soul into heaven

• put clothing on one's body

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verb

• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

• take in marriage; married

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

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noun

• any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)

• the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in

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New York Times03 Apr 2021 Down 3
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