diff --git a/labs/gb/styles/adopt-styles.ts b/labs/gb/styles/adopt-styles.ts
index ad756f49ea..fb02fe7707 100644
--- a/labs/gb/styles/adopt-styles.ts
+++ b/labs/gb/styles/adopt-styles.ts
@@ -68,8 +68,15 @@ function adopt(
   stylesheets: CSSStyleSheet[],
 ): node is DocumentOrShadowRoot {
   if (node && 'adoptedStyleSheets' in node) {
+    const unadopted = stylesheets.filter(
+      (stylesheet) => !node.adoptedStyleSheets.includes(stylesheet),
+    );
+    if (!unadopted.length) {
+      // All styles are already adopted.
+      return true;
+    }
     node.adoptedStyleSheets = Array.from(
-      new Set([...node.adoptedStyleSheets, ...stylesheets]),
+      new Set([...node.adoptedStyleSheets, ...unadopted]),
     );
     return true;
   }
diff --git a/labs/gb/styles/adopt-styles_test.ts b/labs/gb/styles/adopt-styles_test.ts
index e190ea283e..d972904f59 100644
--- a/labs/gb/styles/adopt-styles_test.ts
+++ b/labs/gb/styles/adopt-styles_test.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,40 @@ describe('adoptStyles()', () => {
       .toContain(sheet);
   });
 
+  it('should not duplicate stylesheets if already adopted', () => {
+    adoptStyles(document, sheet);
+    adoptStyles(document, sheet);
+
+    expect(document.adoptedStyleSheets)
+      .withContext('document.adoptedStyleSheets')
+      .toHaveSize(1);
+  });
+
+  it('should only adopt new stylesheets when given an array that includes adopted sheets', () => {
+    const alreadyAdopted = new CSSStyleSheet();
+    adoptStyles(document, alreadyAdopted);
+    adoptStyles(document, [sheet, alreadyAdopted]);
+
+    expect(document.adoptedStyleSheets)
+      .withContext('document.adoptedStyleSheets')
+      .toHaveSize(2);
+  });
+
+  it('should not mutate adoptedStyleSheets if the sheets are already adopted', () => {
+    adoptStyles(document, sheet);
+    const previousAdoptedStyleSheets = document.adoptedStyleSheets;
+    const previousSize = previousAdoptedStyleSheets.length;
+
+    adoptStyles(document, sheet);
+
+    expect(document.adoptedStyleSheets)
+      .withContext('document.adoptedStyleSheets')
+      .toBe(previousAdoptedStyleSheets);
+    expect(document.adoptedStyleSheets)
+      .withContext('document.adoptedStyleSheets')
+      .toHaveSize(previousSize);
+  });
+
   it("should adopt to an Element's document", () => {
     const element = document.createElement('div');
     adoptStyles(element, sheet);
diff --git a/labs/gb/styles/icon/md-icon.ts b/labs/gb/styles/icon/md-icon.ts
index 09ce2984be..bdba886204 100644
--- a/labs/gb/styles/icon/md-icon.ts
+++ b/labs/gb/styles/icon/md-icon.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import {type CSSResultOrNative} from 'lit';
 import {customElement} from 'lit/decorators.js';
 import {Icon as IconBase} from '../../../../icon/internal/icon.js';
+import {adoptStyles} from '../adopt-styles.js';
 
 import iconStyles from './md-icon.css' with {type: 'css'}; // github-only
 // import iconStyles from './md-icon.cssresult.js'; // google3-only
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ export class Icon extends IconBase {
 
   override connectedCallback() {
     super.connectedCallback();
+    // Adopt stylesheet to ensure global CSS @property variables are registered.
+    adoptStyles(this, iconStyles);
     this.classList.add('md-icon');
   }
 }