adapted

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This article is adapted from his book “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience,” forthcoming on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

These include YouTuber Markiplier's horror film Iron Lung, adapted from a video game and set in a submarine.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Among all living crocodile species, the saltwater crocodile is especially well adapted for life at sea.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

Researchers adapted a technique widely used to study heat and human health to establish the first "statistically validated association between ambient temperature and koala mortality", the study said.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Just as strawberries are adapted to birds, so acorns are adapted to squirrels, mangos to bats, and some sedges to ants.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond