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adoption

[uh-dop-shuhn] / əˈdɒp ʃən /


NOUN
legal taking of another's child
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Aimiee Sadler, chief executive of Dogs Playing for Life, said that the program helps make dogs more suitable for adoption and that keeping dogs confined to their kennels is equal to “incarceration.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Allowing workers to be automatically enrolled in those accounts would accelerate adoption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

In a note to clients on Wednesday, Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives touted the “significant momentum” for Palantir, which he said points to potentially further adoption among federal agencies.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

As domestic adoption of electric trucks picks up pace, Chinese firms are thinking more about overseas markets.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

With this chronology in mind, we can now address an important question: was Copernicus’s adoption of the terraqueous-globe theory the key event which led to his switch from geocentrism to heliocentrism?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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