adopt
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As businesses and consumers increasingly adopt artificial intelligence agents, 1Password is aiming to position itself to deliver solutions for growing challenges around security, access and trust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Less than two months ago, 100 tech companies wrote an open letter warning the world to adopt a new level of cyber resilience in the age of AI.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Scientists can now reprogram certain mature cells to adopt entirely different identities.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
On a company level, he thinks those chief executives who adopt and harness AI fastest will be the big winners.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
“I know we could find someone to adopt Pi. We will put him on our blog. I bet he has 30 phone calls on the 1st day.”
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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An AIG spokesman said the insurer automatically adopts the standardized forms, which is a “common practice across the industry.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
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
"The nervous system adopts a safety-first approach, compensating for age-related changes by favoring stability over performance," says Associate Professor Immink, Lead of the Active Lives Research Program within the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
In May, Congress adopts a gag rule designed to prohibit any discussion of petitions related to slavery.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Eventually other states and the federal government adopted similar regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
On Dec. 23, the Justices adopted a celebrated Georgetown scholar’s academic reading of the statute, saying it only allowed the president to commandeer national guard troops if the situation had already outmatched the standing army.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“The reality is it’s gonna be used, and it’s gonna be adopted probably more and more, and I don’t know what the best version of this is. It can’t replace people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Balshaw pledging allegiance to his adopted country is understandable given his limited contact with his birthland.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
But if she’s going to succeed in her adopted country—one for which she played such a pivotal wartime role—she’ll have to remind them who she is.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Berlin is "now adopting the approach of responding to crises, whether the pandemic or spikes in energy prices, with a massive increase in public spending", said Joerg Kraemer, chief economist at Commerzbank.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
One trial participant described the freedom of adopting a treatment that did not require medication or an assistive device:
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
UOB economist Jester Koh noted from the MPC meetings in August that several members said that while rate hikes on the horizon, they are adopting a wait-and-see approach first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
He's also recently just published his fifth book which explores how adopting psychopathic traits can help people climb the corporate ladder.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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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