adopt
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How that attendance figure is judged depends on the narrative people choose to adopt.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Serving as civilian leader of the Army for 18 months, he pushed soldiers to adopt new battlefield technology and spearheaded multibillion-dollar private-sector partnerships to modernize base infrastructure and domestic logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The report anticipates that tighter credit and liquidity next year will force decelerating AI capex, more credit events and the Federal Reserve being forced to adopt a more dovish approach.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
People seem more likely to adopt its smart glasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban because they’re called Meta, rather than Facebook, specs.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Were they supposed to adopt some other kid?
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Cong has bewildered opponents at weigh-ins while wearing the face paint, and says she even adopts the Joker alias when using social media messaging back home in China.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Another key element of the measure is establishing a two-year budget cycle for the city, which currently adopts its budget annually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
“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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That name felt like the perfect branding, and the Leights adopted it for their company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan, often referred to as a “poison pill,” intended to fend off a hostile takeover.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
This season, he has adopted the 3-1-6 shape more permanently - trading a second holding midfielder for an extra attacking midfielder.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Much of that progress can be traced to the Montreal Protocol, a global agreement adopted in 1987 to phase out substances responsible for damaging the ozone layer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
Maybe that was why they’d adopted the unheard-of measure of ‘owning’ prey.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Thinla from Laos has abandoned the short, sequinned dress she wore in the first video of her infectious reggaeton song Bae and is adopting Lao hill-tribe costume for her and her backing dancers.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Whether they tweak conventional wisdom or devise an entirely new way to pick stocks, the key is adopting a screening method that works — and then sticking with it.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
The case prompted fresh calls for transparency, with parliament adopting a law in 2003, which allowed individuals who had been monitored to learn who had reported on them.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Excess weight carries established health risks, and the findings do not demonstrate that adopting such diets would improve cancer treatment in humans.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
It was adopting the role that it plays for us, in the twenty-first century: it was becoming the soundtrack to the affairs of our hearts.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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