readjustment

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The story “Soldier’s Home” reveals a young man’s difficult readjustment to civilian life, his parents’ pressure as he returns from the war and his rejection of their conventional values.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

He gets rescued and they kind of time jump; they just go right past the period of readjustment.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

They had to do a huge readjustment in their understanding of me, so that’s not easy for parents.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

A readjustment of the tech sector’s unbridled growth during the pandemic is largely responsible for the slowdown in wage growth.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023

By the late 1940s, Monod had discovered that the kink was the result of a metabolic readjustment.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee