adopt
Example Sentences
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Apart from chopping four hours off the working week, he extended free healthcare and introduced civil unions, laying the ground for a gay marriage bill that was adopted over a decade later, despite mass protests.
From Barron's
The Commission last month adopted a set of rules on what does and doesn’t qualify under its framework for carbon removal.
An L.A. city councilman, at his wit’s end, joked that the city could end the smog problem by adopting a resolution “creating an eight-mile-an-hour wind” to blow it all away.
From Los Angeles Times
Members of the European Parliament on Thursday voted to adopt their position on the trade deal, which was initially reached in July 2025 after months of back and forth between the European Commission and U.S.
A Central Command spokesperson declined to comment on how Iran was adopting lessons from the war in Ukraine.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
