adaptable

Example Sentences

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“Israelis are very adaptable, everyone’s just doing what they can within the reaches of their own sanity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

While historians often portray Cromwell as “a hypocrite or a double-dealer,” here he’s a dexterous politician, a pragmatic and adaptable leader who “could ride two horses at once, while advancing three agendas.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

"But it is interesting to note that the more adaptable pinks have proven less popular than we might have assumed, and green and red varieties negligible, highlighting the importance in maintaining cultivated diversity in gardens."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

This challenge has driven researchers to search for more adaptable and efficient technologies.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

Over the eons of unhurried time that is nature’s, life reached an adjustment with destructive forces as selection weeded out the less adaptable and only the most resistant survived.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson