adopting

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In Leeds, one multi-academy trust is adopting a similar preventative approach to Neets as Sefton Council, but this time targeting students from the age of 12.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

New data show their Gen Alpha children are adopting the same defensive mindset.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

Decades after captivity that she said made her feel less than human, she’s now adopting the almost superhuman form of a competitive bodybuilder.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Board of Education was on the leading edge by adopting an on-campus student cellphone ban in June 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 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