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adopt

[uh-dopt] / əˈdɒpt /


VERB
legally care for another's child
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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

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

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

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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