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adopt

[uh-dopt] / əˈdɒpt /


VERB
legally care for another's child
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Ramnani praised the company’s “ideal competitive position” helping customers “adopt AI capabilities and leverage their proprietary data in a secure environment.”

From MarketWatch

Smaller cities in Colorado adopted some of the largest increases in minimum worker pay this year.

From The Wall Street Journal

It also adopts Roosevelt’s arguments about the U.S.’s right to defend its interests.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle maker has adopted an approach that uses cameras alone and bets on using the massive amount of data it collects to refine its system.

From MarketWatch

Instead, they were adopted unilaterally on Monday by the acting director of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, an investor with no medical or public health degree.

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