adaptation
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In this adaptation, Anna Bowden had been Cady’s defense attorney, and he’s no longer an illiterate rube but a successful restaurateur who was convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Surprisingly, the patron of Chand’s adaptation was in fact a Swiss-French engineer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
But adaptation and relief are not the same thing.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
The star also appears in the film adaptation of "Street Fighter" and in the "Dune" trilogy, whose final installment hits theaters in December.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
This was, in other words, an adaptation of his atmospheric steam engine, or rather a reversion to his earlier plan for a wind-gun powered by atmospheric pressure.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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