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adapter

[uh-dap-ter] / əˈdæp tər /




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Mr. Armitage writes with a poet’s mastery of rhythm and rupture, refusing both the sterile fidelity of the scholar and the vulgar opportunism of the adapter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

"We call it the universal adapter," Schultheiß explains.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026

"There was an adapter charging system - full of chargers - and the fire comes out of that."

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

The most practical option was an old-school corded phone and a cellular-to-landline adapter.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

A small refrigerator is plugged into an adapter that has six different electrical devices all feeding into one outlet.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Poorly manufactured adapters lack the internal protections for managing power surges, says Bunnie Huang, a hardware researcher, hacker and electrical engineer based in Singapore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

If not, adapters are available for less than £10.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025

Customers purchase what they need a la carte — a combination of jacket hoses, nozzles, valves and adapters that, when assembled, vastly increases the water flow rate from a homeowner’s outdoor faucet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

Whatever your opinions of that series — and there are plenty — it laid out the duo’s strengths as adapters and their weaknesses as creators of original material.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

The Greeks, he remembered regretfully, were clever adapters.

From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens


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