adaptation
Example Sentences
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Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.
"We are super curious to see if these coastal wolves have behavioral adaptations that are different from terrestrial wolves."
From Science Daily
As far as videogame adaptations go, its second season has been a lot more interesting — and fun to watch — than HBO’s “The Last of Us” was.
From MarketWatch
Massachusetts’s American Repertory Theater presents an adaptation of a young-adult novel about a boy born with a genetic disorder, with music by A Great Big World and a book by Sarah Ruhl.
What’s your role in “H Is for Hawk”? I play Helen Macdonald in the film adaptation of her memoir about spending a year training a hawk after her father’s death.
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