adapt
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Earlier this year, Netflix announced that it will adapt Cosby’s “All the Sinners Bleed” into a limited series, to star Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as the novel’s small town black sheriff dealing with a serial killer.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The machine doesn’t adapt to its new circumstances.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
It is whether those who relied on the old one can adapt before the new one hardens around them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
"These results are an important piece of the larger puzzle of what is going on in the overall population as they attempt to adapt to climate change in real time."
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vocabulary lists containing adapt
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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