adaptation
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And in the last few weeks, Amazon Prime released Off Campus, another adaptation of an ice hockey romance book, which the streamer says has instantly become its top show worldwide.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
He added that the degree of adaptation seen in any population may depend on how recently its environment changed.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
Mr. King wasn’t crazy about the film and eventually paid Kubrick $1.5 million for the screen rights so that he could write his own 1997 TV miniseries adaptation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
After considering that last point, another paraphrase comes to mind, an adaptation of Pogo’s famous line: “We have met the tech sector, and he is us.”
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
This was, in other words, an adaptation of his atmospheric steam engine, or rather a reversion to his earlier plan for a wind-gun powered by atmospheric pressure.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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