How to Use adoption in a Sentence

adoption

noun
  • The lawyer has handled countless adoptions.
  • Our adoption of local customs has gone slowly.
  • The fast rate of EV adoption is still not enough to curb climate change, some studies have found.
    PCMAG, 19 Dec. 2022
  • That ultimately would make more kids available for adoption.
    Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The children they were forced to leave behind would be put up for adoption, fostered out or sent to industrial schools.
    Dan Barry, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • This issue instantly detracts from the number of potential use cases and the rate of global adoption.
    Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The last major update to Ohio's adoption procedures was in 1996.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 4 Dec. 2024
  • These employees will be allowed to take leave to care for a newborn child or for the adoption of a child younger than 18 years old, county officials said.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Jonas lowered his expectations for the rate of electric-vehicle adoption in the US through the end of the decade.
    Esha Dey, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Last, the researchers find that greater levels of AI adoption were followed by reductions in the audit firms’ workforces.
    Joseph Brazel, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • That’s a tough sell, especially in the US, and especially at this moment of EV adoption.
    Gregory Barber, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Blockchain adoption is nascent in Qatar, leaving software development companies with room for innovation.
    Aline Daoud, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The adoption of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863 was perhaps her most lasting achievement.
    Troy Bickham, Chron, 24 Dec. 2022
  • But as this was still the ICE age, the mass adoption of car use fouled the air.
    Carlton Reid, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The cafe housed about 30 cats that were up for adoption.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Salinger urged adoption of the dove plank on the Vietnam War.
    Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2024
  • But Berezin says that the adoption of those AI tools has been slow.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
  • These are the pets up for adoption in Phoenix-area shelters this week.
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2024
  • These are the pets up for adoption in Phoenix-area shelters this week.
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • These are the pets up for adoption in metro Phoenix shelters this week.
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • These are the adorable pets up for adoption in Phoenix-area shelters this week.
    The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
  • In fact, the technology is on the cusp of much wider adoption.
    Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The union is seeking to ensure that the adoption of AI will not displace jobs.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 May 2024
  • That’s faster than many EVs on the market and goes a long way toward adoption.
    Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Buttigieg and his husband were in the middle of the adoption process when Vance made those comments.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2024
  • Tennessee will join North Dakota in the adoption of the bill.
    Kaylin Blue, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The interspecies friends are not up for adoption at this time.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Pinky’s also hosts pet adoption events, with the next one scheduled for Dec.16.
    Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Read on to meet some of the dogs available for adoption through Mission K9 Rescue.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
  • Subsidies have played a huge role in the recent wave of adoption.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023

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