adaptation
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Thorne’s adaptation is largely faithful to William Golding’s 1954 novel.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
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
It is about adaptation: the way a muscle grows stronger when challenged, or a mind becomes more flexible when it explores.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 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
Internally, the important institutional decisions seem to have been made by a process of accommodation and adaptation, with resistible forces always meeting movable objects.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing adaptation
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