adaptive
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An executive order from Trump in December 2025, entitled “Ensuring American Space Superiority,” called for “creating a responsive and adaptive national security space architecture” through allied cooperation and private sector investments.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
This could lead to technologies such as frictional metamaterials, adaptive damping systems, and contactless control components.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026
In patients who already produce normal or elevated levels of endogenous GLP-1, flooding those same receptors with long-acting agonists may push a finely tuned system past its adaptive range.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026
India needs translational laboratories, accredited biobanks, adaptive trial networks and globally trusted evidence systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
As a result human biology has evolved as an adaptive mechanism to conditions that have largely ceased to exist.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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