adopt
verb (used with object)
to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent.
is adopting
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present progressiveof adopt (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The Pentagon is adopting AI for targeting and other functions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Zuckerberg says Meta is adopting a new governance structure that gives its board of directors power to say whether new models adhere to safety criteria the board approves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The move marks another possible signal to Washington that Venezuela is adopting a more cooperative stance regarding its energy sector and American oil companies eyeing a return to the country.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Nvidia is adopting co-packaged optics—integrating optical engines directly alongside its chips—for its next-generation SpectrumX and QuantumX AI switches.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Does it mean nothing socially as well as materially that the East is adopting from the West a myriad innovations, weighty and trivial, important and frivolous, useful and baneful?
From The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard
