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adopt

[uh-dopt] / əˈdɒpt /


VERB
legally care for another's child
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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

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

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

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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