Synonyms for uptake
ˈʌpˌteɪkup·take

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1. consumption, ingestion, intake, uptakenoun

   the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

   Synonyms:
   phthisis, use, expenditure, use of goods and services, inhalation, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, breathing in, consumption, aspiration, economic consumption, ingestion, inlet, intake, usance, inspiration, white plague

2. uptakenoun

   a process of taking up or using up or consuming

   "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"

   Synonyms:
   ingestion, intake, consumption

Matched Categories

1. • Bodily Process
   • Human Process

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1. List of paraphrases for "uptake":

   absorption, assimilation, capture, intake, absorptive, incorporation, absorbency, removals, absorbance, adsorption, catch, consumption, seizure, absorb

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How to use uptake in a sentence?

1. United States:

   Even prior to Covid, screening uptake was not where it needed to be for the United States public.

2. Vanessa Saliba:

   It's really important that we get this message out about what a difference the vaccine is making so that we maintain our high uptake rates going forward and make sure that all our girls are protected as early as possible.

3. Pfizer Inc:

   This slow uptake undermines the potential value that biosimilars can offer and the savings they can bring to the health care system.

4. Lori Tremmel Freeman:

   Our booster uptake so far isn't that great, and so another booster is not going to necessarily cause people to run out and get the boosters they've already missed.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   So, if we get the overwhelming majority of people taking the vaccine, and you have on the one hand an effective vaccine, on the other hand, a high degree of uptake of the vaccine, we could start getting things back to relative normal as we get into the second and third quarter of the year, where people can start thinking about doing things that were too dangerous just months ago.