How to Use uptake in a Sentence
uptake
noun
- She's pretty quick on the uptake.
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But in the six weeks since, the uptake has proven even weaker than feared.
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BostonGlobe.com,
7 Aug. 2022
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At least, that appears to be the case from the social media uptake.
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Li Goldstein,
Bon Appétit,
14 Dec. 2022
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But researchers say uptake of these new agents has been slow.
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Maryn McKenna,
Scientific American,
17 Sep. 2024
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This even includes iPhone and iPad owners, though many are quick on the uptake.
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Jacob Siegal,
BGR,
30 Mar. 2022
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However, uptake of those doses has been slow out of the gate.
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Los Angeles Times,
26 Nov. 2022
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So what’s to be done as parental leave uptake increases?
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Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza,
Quartz,
3 May 2023
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Meta, to date, has spent more than $15 billion on its metaverse project, but uptake has been slow.
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Chris Morris,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2022
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Whether the massive uptake in AI can be the wind under blockchain’s wings has yet to be determined.
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Isabelle Bousquette,
WSJ,
11 Jan. 2024
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The study suggests vaccine uptake may be partly to blame.
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Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA TODAY,
17 Oct. 2022
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In the time since, as CNN noted last week, the burden has shifted to states with less vaccine uptake.
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Zachary B. Wolf,
CNN,
13 Dec. 2021
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Did the state’s reluctance to get on board delay the program’s uptake?
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Ian Max Stevenson,
Idaho Statesman,
8 May 2024
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But this statistic includes uptake of the older boosters, which were tuned to the original strain of the virus.
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Erin Prater,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2022
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As office life starts to return to normal, the uptake on its service has slowed.
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Chris Wack,
WSJ,
21 June 2022
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But the June study suggested that Covid vaccine uptake explained just 10% of the partisan gap in the deaths.
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Aria Bendix,
NBC News,
6 Oct. 2022
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Crummy uptake isn’t a new issue, and some of the same deterrents that have plagued rollouts from the start haven’t gone away.
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Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
25 Aug. 2022
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In the pandemic, the Philippines suffered a high death toll and low vaccine uptake.
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Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
27 June 2024
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The article paints a grim picture of Horizon’s uptake thus far.
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David Meyer,
Fortune,
7 Feb. 2023
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There is already slow uptake of Covid-19 vaccines among children in the United States.
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Jacqueline Howard,
CNN,
23 June 2022
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Advertisement Such uptake would be more in line with that of the annual flu shot.
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Oct. 2023
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The slow uptake has Bay Area health officials concerned.
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Aidin Vaziri,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Oct. 2022
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All of these hurdles must be overcome to increase access and uptake.
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Forbes,
20 Apr. 2023
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That is certainly one way to spin low user uptake on a new feature.
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Sam MacHkovech,
Ars Technica,
29 Jan. 2022
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The lower vaccine uptake in younger adults probably played a role.
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Nov. 2023
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The banyan tree is watered about three days a week and sensors monitor its water uptake.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
28 July 2024
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The pace of uptake for the shots is much slower compared with the previous Covid-19 vaccination shots.
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Tarini Parti,
WSJ,
25 Oct. 2022
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Vaccination uptake stalled out as the ranks of anti-vaxxers swelled.
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David Axe,
Rolling Stone,
5 May 2022
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By this point, vaccines had been available for some time, but uptake among detainees was spotty.
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Rachael Bedard,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2022
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The ultrafine bubbles can improve the delivery, absorption, and uptake of cells in many applications.
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Kimberly Chin,
Axios,
23 Oct. 2024
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Because the scan evaluates glucose (sugar) uptake, uncontrolled diabetes with high blood sugar levels will lead to an ineffective scan.
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Susan Russell,
Health,
12 Sep. 2024
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