How to Use uptake in a Sentence

uptake

noun
  • She's pretty quick on the uptake.
  • But in the six weeks since, the uptake has proven even weaker than feared.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2022
  • At least, that appears to be the case from the social media uptake.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 14 Dec. 2022
  • But researchers say uptake of these new agents has been slow.
    Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • This even includes iPhone and iPad owners, though many are quick on the uptake.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 30 Mar. 2022
  • However, uptake of those doses has been slow out of the gate.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2022
  • So what’s to be done as parental leave uptake increases?
    Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza, Quartz, 3 May 2023
  • Meta, to date, has spent more than $15 billion on its metaverse project, but uptake has been slow.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Whether the massive uptake in AI can be the wind under blockchain’s wings has yet to be determined.
    Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The study suggests vaccine uptake may be partly to blame.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Did the state’s reluctance to get on board delay the program’s uptake?
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2024
  • But this statistic includes uptake of the older boosters, which were tuned to the original strain of the virus.
    Erin Prater, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • As office life starts to return to normal, the uptake on its service has slowed.
    Chris Wack, WSJ, 21 June 2022
  • But the June study suggested that Covid vaccine uptake explained just 10% of the partisan gap in the deaths.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Crummy uptake isn’t a new issue, and some of the same deterrents that have plagued rollouts from the start haven’t gone away.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the pandemic, the Philippines suffered a high death toll and low vaccine uptake.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • The article paints a grim picture of Horizon’s uptake thus far.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
  • There is already slow uptake of Covid-19 vaccines among children in the United States.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 23 June 2022
  • Advertisement Such uptake would be more in line with that of the annual flu shot.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The slow uptake has Bay Area health officials concerned.
    Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2022
  • All of these hurdles must be overcome to increase access and uptake.
    Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That is certainly one way to spin low user uptake on a new feature.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The lower vaccine uptake in younger adults probably played a role.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The banyan tree is watered about three days a week and sensors monitor its water uptake.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
  • The pace of uptake for the shots is much slower compared with the previous Covid-19 vaccination shots.
    Tarini Parti, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Vaccination uptake stalled out as the ranks of anti-vaxxers swelled.
    David Axe, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2022
  • By this point, vaccines had been available for some time, but uptake among detainees was spotty.
    Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Yet, after the initial uptake, the use of cryptocurrency has plunged.
    Bryan Avelar, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • Vaccine uptake in this group is already lower than in any other age group.
    Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But uptake has fallen in recent years; last season, only about half of adults and children got their annual flu vaccine.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024

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