adoption
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Fostering — temporarily caring for an animal, usually on their route to adoption — alleviates stress on shelters, providing care when they can’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“It’s important for fosters to get involved so that we have somewhere to keep the cats until they get adopted,” said Mibbby Butler, the adoption coordinator at the no-kill shelter Kitten Rescue Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
AI adoption, and the efficiencies and productivity gains it promises, may provide the U.S. with a plausible path to absorbing higher interest-rate costs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Continued strong demand for high-bandwidth memory chips and increasing adoption by AI chip makers should support customer diversification at SK Hynix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
We had been with our new family for two months when, one day, our adoption social worker called Mama with a problem.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
Hidayat joined a Facebook group for adoptions, and was approached by a woman claiming she could not have children.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Cat adoptions are climbing: More than 2.2 million cats were adopted from U.S. shelters in 2025, up 16% from a decade ago, according to Shelter Animals Count.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Last month, the Church of England last month said sorry for its role in the forced adoptions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Australia's government issued a landmark apology in 2013 for forced adoptions and Ireland's did so in 2021.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
She told me she had called a few adoption agencies that arranged international adoptions.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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