adoption

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Recent Examples of adoption To mitigate divisions, leaders should look more closely at whether AI adoption is improving work for some employees while eroding it for others. Matt Rosenbaum, Fortune, 29 May 2026 Air taxi makers, which have long worked with defense contractors, took the news in stride, reading the announcement as a way to fast-track approval and accelerate adoption for tech that's taken years to come to fruition. Samantha Subin, CNBC, 29 May 2026 Former city council representative Sal Espino, who chaired the Redistricting Taskforce, said the group recommended Calderon’s map to the city council for adoption. Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2026 The shift from periodic to continuous finance operations reflects a broader trend: as AI adoption accelerates, the reliability of outputs increasingly depends on the quality and consistency of underlying data. Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 21 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for adoption
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Noun
  • But Cygnet Infinity—which received gold at the Spirits Business’s Low & No Masters 2026 Awards—is less about abstinence than embracement.
    Nick Scott, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
  • That embracement has helped the military enlist between 128,000 and 190,000 new service members annually since the 1990s, even though some armed forces, especially the Army, have struggled to meet their recruiting goals in the past few years.
    Jeremiah Favara, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But Kyiv’s early embrace of drones, and the mass-industrialization of their accuracy and power, has begun to exact a defining toll on Moscow.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • The release of the funds was a signal of Brussels’ embrace of the new government in Budapest after the 16-year tenure of Viktor Orbán, who was allied with Russia and antagonized the EU.
    Justin Spike, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The Trump administration is also unwinding another key tool of American soft power: the country’s espousal of liberal democratic values.
    Robert O. Keohane, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2025
  • Supporting Yoon’s impeachment, Lee has also condemned Yoon’s unconstitutional abuse of martial law and espousal of election fraud conspiracy theory.
    Jong Eun Lee, The Conversation, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • All over the world, the ideological warfare of the twentieth century seemed to have given way to a general acceptance that democracy and capitalism were the best way to run a country.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • Over the course of 11 tracks, Gibbard and co detail everything from devastating heartbreak to hard-won acceptance, using every memory as a roadmap.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2026

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“Adoption.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adoption. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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