adaptive
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For her, adaptive cheer is "probably the most important thing in the world".
From BBC • Apr. 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
Humans are surprisingly resilient and adaptive, and our desire to be creative and to be in groups won’t go away.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
The researchers found that T cells recruited to the lungs as part of the adaptive response were sending signals that kept innate immune cells switched on.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
If anything, it stood even more upright: at the end of the long chain of adaptive evolution was the well-adjusted, best-erected, most perfected mammal of them all: humans.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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30 GRE Words Beginning with "A"
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