adopt
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City Council voted Tuesday to permanently adopt an affordable housing streamlining directive introduced by Mayor Karen Bass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Chinese officials have warned employers not to cut jobs as they adopt artificial intelligence, amid concerns about the impact on social stability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Other issues he wanted addressed include the full recognition of same-sex marriage, same-sex couples' rights to adopt children, and the restoration of the right of transgender people to change their names in official documents.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The rack will support agentic AI, AMD said, and the blueprint is open, meaning the company’s ecosystem partners can further develop and adopt the hardware and software.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
And that morning, Manit had told them that he had started the paperwork to adopt them both.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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Mr. Van Dyk, an American, adopts a matter-of-fact, undemonstrative style characteristic of rigorous Northern European dramas that trust the audience to draw its own conclusions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
It adopts a helpful no-punishment philosophy: If you don’t meet your goals or you step away from the app for an extended amount of time, it only sends encouragement.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Pressure and temperature alone may not determine which structure the material adopts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cardiff University said it was sorry that "any student felt unsafe" on campus and that it adopts a "zero-tolerance approach to harassment and discrimination of all kinds".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
“But I can stay here with her if Ray adopts her, but not me, right?”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Former state Sen. Jim Brulte said the Senate Republican Caucus spent several days reading through DeMaio’s recommendations and ultimately adopted several.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
It’s telling that one of the few other CEOs who was also an executive during the dot-com bust has adopted a similar strategy to Dell: Corning’s Wendell Weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The model was later adopted by other healthcare teams.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Turkey also adopted new public procurement rules this year, Bolat said, which means "European suppliers and Turkish suppliers can -- and will be able to -- participate in public tenders under the same, equal conditions".
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
“We’re volunteering with some of my students to help clean up the highway adopted by the college,” she says.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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In search of relief, some recreational gym-goers are adopting the kind of recovery techniques once reserved for elite athletes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
He's also recently just published his fifth book which explores how adopting psychopathic traits can help people climb the corporate ladder.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Yang Lu of Tapestry told me people are adopting agentic commerce much more slowly than other AI consumer tools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Extreme Makeover” had also been airing since 2002, showing ordinary men and women undergoing plastic surgery, receiving style makeovers and adopting fitness routines.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Only further threats, notably Shays’s Rebellion of 1786 and the unsolved burden of war debt, overcame the ex-colonies’ extreme reluctance to sacrifice autonomy and pushed them into adopting our current strong federal constitution in 1787.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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