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adoption

[uh-dop-shuhn] / əˈdɒp ʃən /


NOUN
legal taking of another's child
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With a mandate to move quickly on AI, Pentagon leadership is extending model adoption from headquarters to the field where soldiers operate.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Both companies have also replicated Palantir’s much-emulated practice of employing “forward-deployed engineers” who can embed within customers’ workforces to help drive adoption.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

He wrote in a letter to shareholders that the adoption of AI was helping engineers to code at a much faster pace, with incidents after a change in code happening at a much lower rate.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Of the 250 dogs rescued, 87 were taken in by the RSPCA, which said the "vast majority" had been rehomed, while some were reserved and two dogs remained up for adoption.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Finally, after another year of this, child services terminated Shanon’s parental rights and put us up for adoption.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles




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