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adoption

[uh-dop-shuhn] / əˈdɒp ʃən /


NOUN
legal taking of another's child
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Jan, now 73, remembers vividly the day she had to give up her baby for adoption and spent years trying to find out what happened to him.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

"The infants that aren't being cared for where the deaths are taking place are disproportionately those that aren't desirable for adoption," it finds.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The MIT measure of AI adoption, for example, depends on company disclosures, and saying little doesn’t necessarily mean little is happening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The lesson from Europe is clear, says Krarti: Stripping away the permits and cost barriers typical of solar installation has driven up adoption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

We spend the rest of the day entering adoption information into the computer and collecting my own sampling.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty




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