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Discover Ludwig"were adopting" is correct and usable in written English.
It is the past tense form of the present-tense verb "adopt," which is usually used when a person or a group (such as a family) takes on responsibility for something or someone. For example: The Smiths were adopting a child from a nearby orphanage.
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Soon young folk musicians were adopting his style, and Mr.
He claimed that Tories in the Treasury were adopting Lib Dem views.
The rise in incarceration started "as the states were adopting tougher sentencing laws", Pfaff said.
By the late 1960's, press critics were adopting that sense of the word.
It said many firms were adopting a wait and see approach to the referendum.
Prospective buyers are interviewed for motivation and warmth, approved as if they were adopting a child.
Ten had died there, including four Haitian children and the foreign parents who were adopting them.
Mr. Lawson said that an increasing number of Americans were adopting the British love of costume.
"By last night, Senate Democrats were adopting our targeted 'cut this, not that' approach.
"I assumed since they were adopting our ideas, we'd be safe," Ms. Garcia said.
Meanwhile, American police forces were adopting some of the militarized tactics that Skinner had seen give rise to insurgencies abroad.
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