adoption

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Recent Examples of adoption The bill avoids addressing whether Connecticut’s school racial imbalance law should be revised and instead delays implementation, as the General Assembly did in a similar omnibus bill last year and has periodically ordered since the law’s adoption in 1969. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2025 Together, these moves represent a potentially monumental shift in American science — one that could spare millions of animals from painful experiments and, advocates hope, speed up the adoption of cutting-edge technologies to produce better, more reliable research than animal models ever did. Rachel Fobar, Vox, 14 May 2025 While Cisco’s layoffs were framed as a realignment to focus on emerging technologies, the adoption of AI tools to handle tasks like network monitoring and troubleshooting suggests that automation reduced the need for certain roles. Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025 Boom tested the material for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the Department of Defense’s organization for accelerating the adoption of commercial and dual-use technology, and the Air Force Operational Energy Office, dedicated to increasing operational efficiency of military aircraft. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for adoption
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Noun
  • One essential factor in Chicago’s architecture has been its unapologetic embrace of the ordinary.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025
  • The event that best summed up the embrace of Mr. Mamdani’s campaign by New York City’s young microinfluencers, though, is one that took place in March at an East Village club.
    Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • The actually existing transatlantic relationship has long been based on a common espousal of liberal democracy, built on the legacy of defeating fascism in World War II.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The actually existing transatlantic relationship has long been based on a common espousal of liberal democracy, built on the legacy of defeating fascism in World War II.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • However, other traits like emotional acceptance or being highly goal-focused sometimes led to less supportive dynamics, suggesting that what’s adaptive for an individual may not always strengthen the relationship.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • There were thanks for Lineker’s contributions from the BBC’s director general Tim Davie but also the acceptance that there could be no reconciliation this time.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 19 May 2025

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“Adoption.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adoption. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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