adapted

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"My brother adapted a surfboard for me – he put handles on a board so I'm surfing again, which I didn't think would be possible."

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Researchers have also explored whether EMR could eventually be adapted for conditions beyond nearsightedness, including farsightedness, astigmatism, and certain reconstructive procedures involving cartilage-rich tissues.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, most leading tenor saxophonists adapted either the hefty, gruff attack of Coleman Hawkins or the airy, linear style of Lester Young.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Researchers adapted a technique widely used to study heat and human health to establish the first "statistically validated association between ambient temperature and koala mortality", the study said.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

But the germination, growth, and disease resistance of plants are adapted to precisely those features of climate.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond