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adapt

[uh-dapt] / Ι™ΛˆdΓ¦pt /


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The discovery also raises a broader question about how rapidly microorganisms can adapt to synthetic materials introduced into their environment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Beyond staff shortages, teachers and pupils must also contend with crumbling school buildings, which a 2023 Senate report estimated would require billions of euros to renovate and adapt to a changing climate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Yet somehow the region has managed to adapt and grow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It proved to be an inspired change from Wiegman as Stanway caused problems throughout for the visitors and was able to adapt to the tweaks impressively.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The sponsors will help us find a place to live and schools to teach us English, and they will help us adapt to life in America.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

The enduring myth of the tower as a site of cruel torments has a lot to do with Ainsworth’s melodramatic novel, which adapts the true story of Lady Jane Grey, the “nine days queen.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Regular coffee drinkers become less sensitive to caffeine as the body adapts to the presence of the chemical.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

L.A. theater director Bart DeLorenzo adapts and directs a new version of Ibsen’s savagely timely ‘Enemy of the People’ at the Odyssey Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

By studying how the brain responds and adapts during treatment, they hoped to uncover biological targets that could eventually lead to more effective obesity therapies.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

A child adapts rapidly, or not at all — and I had taken to the Great Place as though I had been raised there.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Chaparral are adapted to fire every 30 to 130 years — not every eight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Thick, tough evergreen needles are specially adapted to withstand drought and cold, but the thinner, broader leaves of deciduous trees cannot survive such harsh conditions and so go out in a blaze of autumnal glory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The case has previously been adapted into Bafta winning BBC drama The Sixth Commandment, starring Timothy Spall and Anne Reid.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The company is also home to "Reese's Book Club", an online reading community whose promoted titles are sometimes adapted for the screen.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

He discovered he was already well adapted to an army regime, to the terrors of kit inspection and the folding of blankets into precise squares, with the labels lined up.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The discovery suggests that bacteria may be adapting to digest certain plastic materials more quickly than researchers previously believed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Asked if the demanding job would impact her personal life, Zacharia described how her family of four children was adapting.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

This book about adapting ancient poetry in the most unpromising of circumstances explores the fantastic possibilities for connection, for liberation and for violence that can ensue from such reinventions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

That opportunity is coinciding with Palantir’s move toward a more vertical model that involves adapting its various products and platforms to specific industries, she added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan


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