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adaptation

[ad-uhp-tey-shuhn] / ˌæd əpˈteɪ ʃən /




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The crux of the outrage surrounding Fennell’s film stemmed largely from the fact that she refused to rename her relatively loose, aesthetic-minded adaptation with a title that didn’t directly reference Emily Brontë’s novel.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

Ian McKellen plays a cantankerous painter, Michael Jackson’s electrifying talent comes through in a new biopic, Albert Camus’s ‘The Stranger’ gets an elegant adaptation, and much, much more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Before being introduced to the wild from captivity, the bongos go through a series of adaptation phases for them to build the immunity needed to survive.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Maybe it was an instinct born from a desire to honor her own father’s memory, but Silber felt protective over Lerner’s legacy, and told his estate as much when she pitched her adaptation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

Evolution and adaptation were bundled together into one continuous mechanism: adaptation was evolution.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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