How to Use uptake in a Sentence

uptake

noun

• She's pretty quick on the uptake.
• At least, that appears to be the case from the social media uptake.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 14 Dec. 2022
• However, uptake of those doses has been slow out of the gate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• So what’s to be done as parental leave uptake increases?
  — Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza, Quartz, 3 May 2023
• Meta, to date, has spent more than $15 billion on its metaverse project, but uptake has been slow.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
• Whether the massive uptake in AI can be the wind under blockchain’s wings has yet to be determined.
  — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
• The study suggests vaccine uptake may be partly to blame.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
• But this statistic includes uptake of the older boosters, which were tuned to the original strain of the virus.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
• But the June study suggested that Covid vaccine uptake explained just 10% of the partisan gap in the deaths.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2022
• The article paints a grim picture of Horizon’s uptake thus far.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• Advertisement Such uptake would be more in line with that of the annual flu shot.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The slow uptake has Bay Area health officials concerned.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2022
• All of these hurdles must be overcome to increase access and uptake.
  — Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The lower vaccine uptake in younger adults probably played a role.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• The pace of uptake for the shots is much slower compared with the previous Covid-19 vaccination shots.
  — Tarini Parti, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• In the neighborhood itself, the vigorous uptake of these images inspired a kind of hope.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• While there are two TBE vaccines in circulation, vaccine uptake is low in regions where the virus is new.
  — Time, 28 July 2023
• The current uptake is far short of survey data from last month that indicated more than half of American adults planned to get the shots.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• The worry: new variants continue spreading and uptake of the new omicron booster shots is low.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2022
• Despite years of data showing the vaccines to be safe, fear of side effects is a common reason behind low uptake rates.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• There are two overriding things that reduce water uptake in a cut tree (or cut flower, for that matter).
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2022
• Dallas County’s booster uptake rate among people who have received at least one shot matches the statewide rate.
  — Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2022
• What remains to be seen is whether Netflix’s ad play gains momentum next year — or whether the streamer will modify the package to boost its uptake.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
• But a mushrooming reason behind poor uptake is fear over harms.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• The network, though still incomplete, is already being stressed by US uptake, while its capacity goes unused over much of the rest of the globe.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
• And the number of deaths due to Covid among Republicans is greater than among Democrats, for the simple reason there’s less of an uptake of vaccinations there.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• Nationwide, most of the counties with the highest EV uptake are predictably blue and often high-income, but pockets of red are springing up.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
• Especially if the Covid-19 booster can be timed together with the flu shot, that could help improve vaccine uptake for both shots.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 8 Sep. 2022
• The same is true for liver cells (metabolism) and kidney cells (filtrate uptake).
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune Well, 15 Feb. 2023
• Despite the drug's effectiveness, uptake remains low in the U.S., partially out of fears for Paxlovid 'rebound.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024