Example Sentences

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Former employees said Chinese rivals were adopting more punishing work schedules to help push products out more quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

In court documents, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said the defendants were adopting an “extreme position.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

Members of the 100-member LDP faction that once backed Abe in the Diet recently announced they were adopting a “group leadership” structure after having failed to designate a new leader.

From Washington Times • Jul. 6, 2023

There, the domestication of yams by the Niger-Congo peoples developed gradually and likely in a piecemeal fashion beginning possibly around the same time the Nilo-Saharans of the eastern Sahara were adopting agriculture.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

He was not able to accept the methods of enormous expenditures the Company and the Credit Mobilier were adopting and retired on the ground that the Hoxie contract was made against his recommendation.

From The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History by Bailey, W. F.