adaptation
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Different species have evolved different types of blood and immune cells, reflecting millions of years of adaptation against infection and disease.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
Lin's Yoozoo Games holds the film adaptation rights for the Chinese science fiction trilogy which Netflix made into the series 3 Body Problem.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
The movie tweaked Harry’s fatal ending, but the adaptation does something even more striking with his desperation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Psychologists call this hedonic adaptation: the tendency to absorb improvements into our baseline until they no longer feel like gains.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
They are certainly an urban adaptation of the fundamental Karhidish institution of the Hearth, though lacking, of course, the topical and genealogical stability of the Hearth.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing adaptation
"The Origin of Species by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin: Essential Words
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