How to Use uptake in a Sentence

uptake

noun
  • She's pretty quick on the uptake.
  • But in the six weeks since, the uptake has proven even weaker than feared.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2022
  • One reason for the slow uptake in the United States is a lack of places to recharge.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • At least, that appears to be the case from the social media uptake.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 14 Dec. 2022
  • But researchers say uptake of these new agents has been slow.
    Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • This even includes iPhone and iPad owners, though many are quick on the uptake.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 30 Mar. 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
  • In the time since, as CNN noted last week, the burden has shifted to states with less vaccine uptake.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Did the state’s reluctance to get on board delay the program’s uptake?
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2024
  • 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
  • As office life starts to return to normal, the uptake on its service has slowed.
    Chris Wack, WSJ, 21 June 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
  • Crummy uptake isn’t a new issue, and some of the same deterrents that have plagued rollouts from the start haven’t gone away.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the pandemic, the Philippines suffered a high death toll and low vaccine uptake.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • The article paints a grim picture of Horizon’s uptake thus far.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
  • There is already slow uptake of Covid-19 vaccines among children in the United States.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 23 June 2022
  • 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
  • There still aren’t enough of them, though, to reliably tamp down spread; uptake of shots among young kids, too, is expected to be sluggish in the months to come.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2021
  • All of these hurdles must be overcome to increase access and uptake.
    Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Aligning these to events (i.e. World Mental Health Day) can cut through the noise and create stronger engagement and uptake.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That is certainly one way to spin low user uptake on a new feature.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The lower vaccine uptake in younger adults probably played a role.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The banyan tree is watered about three days a week and sensors monitor its water uptake.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
  • Much of the focus of the IRA’s impact has been on uptake by the private sector as factories pop up to take advantage of its tax incentives.
    Justin Worland, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • When glucose levels fall, the switch closes to prevent glucose uptake.
    New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024

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