adoption

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Recent Examples of adoption The Department of Energy’s target for wide adoption is under $100 per tonne. Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025 Research suggests that adopted children tend to benefit from knowing their birth family, their history, and their birth parents’ reasons for seeking adoption. Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025 But that wasn’t enough to draw potential owners to her kennel at an adoption event. Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025 The same applies to coders and writers, who dominate AI adoption rates on platforms like Claude, the researchers found. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for adoption
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Noun
  • Freddie Freeman #5 of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Nick Castellanos #8 of the Philadelphia Phillies embrace at first base during the seventh inning at Dodger Stadium on September 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
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    Minty Mellon, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
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
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    Gabriela Garcia, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
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    Priscilla Blossom, Time, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Adoption.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adoption. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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