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acclimation

NOUN
adaptation
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Carson, the defending City Section Open Division champion, will have five mandatory days of acclimation, then hold an intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

He says English proficiency as essential for acclimation, and recommends that federal and state governments, as well as trucker associations, offer subsidized programs to help immigrants learn English as a second language.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2025

Jones noted that there is growing interest in studying the heat tolerance and acclimation capacity of ectotherms in the face of changing abiotic conditions such as ambient temperature.

From Science Daily May 7, 2024

For instance, two weeks of heat acclimation scores an athlete plus-4 points.

From Seattle Times Aug. 25, 2023

But there are many reintroduction efforts that don’t do hard releases yet do employ some type of acclimation process,where the species is slowly transitioned back into the wild—using a staged, or “soft,” release.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh




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