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adoption

[uh-dop-shuhn] / əˈdɒp ʃən /


NOUN
legal taking of another's child
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Together, these moves reflect the accelerating pace of digital-assets adoption across finance, as traditional institutions race to put everything from commodities to equities on the blockchain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot has more than 30 million paid users, but adoption is much smaller than Google’s Gemini or OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

The strategy has led to Claude seeing "the fastest enterprise adoption of any technology in history", the company claimed.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

SpaceX credited new cloud services agreements, wider adoption of its Grok chatbot and its acquisition of Cursor, an artificial intelligence coding startup.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Yeah, she didn’t realize she was on an adoption website for children with special needs,” I said.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

Investors have been preoccupied with Muse’s impressive adoptions stats.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Annulling the adoptions in Singapore and returning the children to Indonesia will likely be complicated, as it goes into uncharted territory.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Indonesia also has strict rules and processes for transnational adoptions, which the defendants are alleged to have bypassed.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Cat adoptions are climbing: More than 2.2 million cats were adopted from U.S. shelters in 2025, up 16% from a decade ago, according to Shelter Animals Count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

“It still may not permit this adoption. In fact, even the more mod­erate Muslim nations are hesitant with adoptions because in many of those countries, Islamic law, Shari a, doesn’t recognize adoption.”

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini


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