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adoption

[uh-dop-shuhn] / əˈdɒp ʃən /


NOUN
legal taking of another's child
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It uses a variant of FSD for its robotaxi operations, and boosting adoption among consumers is also a priority for the company.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 24, 2026

Continued stock gains require “more optimistic assumptions about adoption, capital shares, productivity or US companies’ ability to capture global revenues,” the strategists said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

The Salvation Army was successful in finding his adoption papers which gave some details about his mother.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026

The analyst predicted that software will become more central to IBM as AI adoption increases.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

On her winter break from her first year at Vassar, Imogen had rummaged in Gil Sokoloff’s file cabinet, looking for her adoption records.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart




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