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Boards adopt language on which they couldn’t survive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The state water board is accepting comments on the plan until Sept. 18 and will consider whether to adopt it at a hearing on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A drop in small boats illegally reaching the UK is forcing people smuggling gangs to adopt new tactics, a BBC investigation has found.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

"We have to adopt certain principles of conscious food systems to make it more mindful, so young people can relate to the connection to the land in their hearts, not just the economics," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Finally, after one last doctor’s appointment full of heartrending phrases—low-motility sperm; inhospitable womb; conception likely impossible—they’d decided to adopt.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

The outfit partners with Kitten Rescue Los Angeles, a nonprofit that rescues and adopts out homeless cats and kittens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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

What a berdache is, basically, is someone who adopts a gender other than their biological one.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

For now, the only concrete measure adopted by both Anthropic and OpenAI is the inclusion of independent observers who will internally verify the companies' work regarding AI safety.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Since Steam’s 1969 hit and “Hey Jude” both employ a common non-lexical vocable, it follows that sports fans in their home countries have adopted each for their own purposes.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The Friday filing said that on June 22, Ellison adopted a plan to unload as many as 50 million Oracle shares, valued at about $7.5 billion at recent prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Two Indian-born women in their 40s, adopted as babies by different families and raised near each other in the Netherlands, have now discovered they are biological sisters.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Pieces that Chandresh became bored with at one point or another and were adopted into this purgatory instead of being discarded entirely.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

“I was fostering them, and I’m like, ‘I can’t let them go,’ so I ended up formally adopting them.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The LNG equipment added weight to the ship, making it harder to meet the demanding cargo carrying requirements without adopting a bulky hull shape, which in turn had an impact on fuel efficiency and speed.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Schools like Meadow Park, in Coventry, are adopting a range of approaches to improve pupils' reading skills, including weekly book club discussions led by tutors.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The first overlooked ruler identified by Edmonds and Frahm used the name Tiglath-pileser, apparently adopting the name of an earlier Assyrian king.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan