adopt

In a sentence

Six example sentences with adopt, each labelled with its topic.

• The city voted to adopt a four-day collection schedule after two neighborhoods tested it for a year.

  Politics

• The team decided to adopt a switching defense in December and won nine of their next eleven games.

  Basketball

• Three farms adopted a no-till method and watched their topsoil stop washing into the creek each spring.

  Environment

• The company decided to adopt the open standard for file formats after customers complained about locked documents.

  Technology

• The team adopted a two-week release cycle, and bugs that once waited a quarter now got fixed in days.

  Startups

• The pension fund adopted a rule of rebalancing every January, whatever the markets had done in December.

  Finance

Found in these word lists

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