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adoption

[uh-dop-shuhn] / əˈdɒp ʃən /


NOUN
legal taking of another's child
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Notably, many of the earlier Neolithic Dutch samples from further north – such as the Swifterbant culture, well-known for maintaining a hunter-gatherer economy alongside some adoption of agriculture – carried close to 100% hunter-gatherer ancestry.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

Eliot, British only by adoption, the “pernicious effects” of whose work he encountered daily among his students at Yale.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Fueling this growth is a rapid surge in enterprise adoption of its Claude large language model.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

And thus, to slow down development and adoption “does not mean opposing progress,” but ensuring such progress can be realized as beneficial for all.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

I flip over the paper and send a pile of adoption forms sailing to the floor.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty




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