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adoption

[uh-dop-shuhn] / əˈdɒp ʃən /


NOUN
legal taking of another's child
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There’s been an increased focus on inference as the adoption of AI applications grows.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Child protection experts were concerned that if the court had ruled in favour of ending the adoption, it would have destabilised the adoption system itself and made it harder to find potential adopters.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

“With AI adoption broadening and workloads for new use cases scaling up rapidly, compute capacity is increasingly becoming the main constraint, driving accelerated investment in AI infrastructure,” M’Saad said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

That said, AI is also still proving quite hit and miss despite all the hype, with reports of disappointing adoption rates among businesses and mutterings that it has been over-sold.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

I wonder if Dumbledore would have used an adoption agency if the Dursleys hadn’t been around.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy




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