The phrase "adopt a familiar" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of taking in or choosing a pet, particularly a cat or dog, that is known to the person.
Example: "After much consideration, we decided to adopt a familiar from the local shelter to keep us company."
Alternatives: "take in a pet" or "bring home a companion animal."
When calculating such things, people often adopt a familiar unit as a mental yardstick and then generate predictions based on that unit.
The academies' statement, and its accompanying comment piece in Nature (probably paywalled, sorry), adopt a familiar stance, albeit with some progressive nods and winks.
Greece's unfortunate recent political history will probably adopt a familiar pattern in the near term, with one failed government giving way to another failed government-in-waiting.
Nitrates adopt a familiar role in capping 1.1.1.0 onto the innermost pyramid-type lanthanides.
Bis phenyl) derivative 14 develops a warped 2D brickwork motif dominated by H π interactions with no observable π π overlap, whereas both 17 and 18 adopt a familiar herringbone packing, and 18 has a π π short contact of 3.325 Å.
LH Tony Kofi Future Passed (Specific Jazz) £13.99 Kofi has a remarkable talent for adopting a familiar jazz idiom and finding new and exciting things to say in it.
It suggests that each artist, rather than adopting a familiar, academically certified style has created a unique language with which to express his or her own experience.
On Saturday, in a speech in Coventry, Corbyn adopted a familiar formula on Brexit that left few people any the wiser as to where Labour will end up or where he really stands.
When General Motors idled its auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio, this month, President Trump adopted a familiar strategy: He issued a nasty string of tweets blaming other people and promised, in effect, that he would restore the past.
Sharif Waked, a Palestinian artist, adopts a familiar format of the kind of haunting personal videos used by terrorists to cite their last will and testament before a suicide bombing, except that Mr. Waked substitutes a reading of an excerpt of "One Thousand and One Nights," confounding expectations and assumptions by essentially playing the role of Scheherazade.
Since taking over as chief military prosecutor last fall, Mark S. Martins, a brigadier general in the Army, has sharply increased efforts to strike plea deals with low-level detainees in return for agreements to provide voluntary testimony against more significant terrorist suspects, adopting a familiar tactic in the traditional civilian criminal justice system.
