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adapt

[uh-dapt] / əˈdæpt /


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Already accustomed to extreme environments, they are quick to adapt to the wind farm's conditions.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Moonshot said Friday that it planned to fully open-source the model, called Kimi K3, by late this month, where people will be generally free to download and adapt.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The researchers also plan to adapt the tool for use in other scientific fields.

From Science Daily Jul. 16, 2026

The question is how investors can position portfolios and financial plans to adapt to a world that’s getting older.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

The most intensely social animals can only adapt to group behavior.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

It can impose disproportionate costs because it adapts, continually out-learns the enemy, and manufactures unmanned systems at greater scale and with greater skill.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Produced by the brilliant team behind “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey, Tom Campbell and RuPaul himself — “Stop! That! Train!” adapts the humor of the Emmy-winning reality show for the big screen.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

It is how he characterizes Denali’s TransportVehicle architecture, a modular platform it adapts to carry amyloid antibodies, tau gene-silencing antisense oligonucleotides, or the enzymes that treat some rare, but fatal, genetic disorders.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

“We expect to see increased imports in June as the market adapts to the new supply reality resulting from the conflict in Iran,” said Woodard.

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2026

A child adapts rapidly, or not at all — and I had taken to the Great Place as though I had been raised there.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Despite this, England adapted well and never seemed to be struggling due to the external factors imposed on them during games - or at least, managed to struggle less than their opponents.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

The system uses a Transformer architecture adapted from the type commonly used in large language models.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

The rise of BookTok and a business imperative to attract young women with money to spend have fueled a massive cultural moment for on-screen love stories, especially ones adapted from books.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

In its 15 years of operation, Letterboxd has only adapted in ways that better serve its users and the film industry as a whole.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

In Ionia, the Phoenician alphabet was first adapted to Greek usage and widespread literacy became possible.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

In adapting the premise for TV, series creator Nick Antosca dilutes the movies’ naked menace by pouring reasonable doubt into both Max’s profile and that of the Bowdens, the married lawyers behind his downfall.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

In a statement, Supt Owen Renowden, the Met's hate crime lead, said: "We're adapting our approach to improve both the speed and quality of our response, while strengthening outcomes for victims."

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

Locals are adapting too—investing in pipelines to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, investing in military strength to deter Iranian attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Changes could include "disabling key addictive features such as 'autoplay' and 'infinite scroll' by default, implementing effective 'screen time breaks', and adapting its recommender system to make it less engagement-oriented", it added.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Were they adapting to him, or were they trying to keep him from freezing?

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova




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