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adoption

[uh-dop-shuhn] / əˈdɒp ʃən /


NOUN
legal taking of another's child
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This includes increasing adoption of AI across different stages of the trucking process, the Journal’s Luis Garcia writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

“The Mythos moment translated into mass-market acceptance that AI adoption needs security.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Internal memos suggested that the firm knew opt-in tools tended to have low adoption rates, and yet it still launched safety features that were not switched on by default.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri took the stand on Tuesday and admitted he touted newly launched safety tools for teens without disclosing low adoption rates from early testing several years ago.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

If the adoption of ploughing increased a village’s population from a hundred to 110, which ten people would have volunteered to starve so that the others could go back to the good old times?

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Hidayat joined a Facebook group for adoptions, and was approached by a woman claiming she could not have children.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

The MSF declined to answer the BBC's questions on whether it did any checks on the babies who entered Singapore and how it usually conducts checks on the adoptions of foreign children.

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

Last month, the Church of England last month said sorry for its role in the forced adoptions.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

She told me she had called a few adoption agencies that arranged international adoptions.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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