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adopt

[uh-dopt] / əˈdɒpt /


VERB
legally care for another's child
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The review points to recent evidence showing that recruitment of B cells can encourage macrophages to adopt M2 states, helping reduce excessive inflammation as healing progresses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Associated Press news agency drew his wrath for refusing to adopt the name "Gulf of America" in place of "Gulf of Mexico."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Neoclouds have been red-hot over the past year, as more corporations adopt enterprise AI tools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The group tried to push the state legislature to adopt bills aimed at stopping steep rent increases and protecting tenants’ rights to organize.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

But the students decided they’d like to adopt the idea for their final project, due in December.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Cong has bewildered opponents at weigh-ins while wearing the face paint, and says she even adopts the Joker alias when using social media messaging back home in China.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Mr. Van Dyk, an American, adopts a matter-of-fact, undemonstrative style characteristic of rigorous Northern European dramas that trust the audience to draw its own conclusions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Another cat, Purdy, was adopted from the local animal shelter to join Kaplanis’s other cat, Sheba, at the store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"There needs to be some kind of mechanism where adopted people's care records can be updated with family information that becomes available throughout the lifespan."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

New York City, Washington state and Minnesota have adopted rules in recent years guaranteeing drivers earn a minimum amount per mile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Now living in the North of England, the 28-year-old was adopted as a baby and spent time in foster care as a teenager.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

His diction could be so contagious that even non-PIH-ers, especially when in his company, adopted the same phrases.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

People are spending so much time with AI that they’re adopting chatbots’ favorite phrases in conversation, Slacks, emails and texts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Extreme Makeover” had also been airing since 2002, showing ordinary men and women undergoing plastic surgery, receiving style makeovers and adopting fitness routines.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

In a follow-up March 17 meeting, she was the only vote against adopting the ballot language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

In adopting the term ‘theory’ the scientists were thus freeing themselves from the philosophers’ preoccupation with truth in so far as it implied knowledge of causes and of what Aristotelian philosophers called substances, or forms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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