adaptation
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A24's "Backrooms," the big screen adaptation of a viral YouTube horror series, smashed several box office records with an $81.5 million North American debut, US media reported Sunday.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
Jeffrey Wright, Richard Gere and Katherine Waterson round out a top-notch cast in this adaptation of Eric Rochant’s brilliant French series “Le Bureau des Legendes.”
From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026
And in the last few weeks, Amazon Prime released Off Campus, another adaptation of an ice hockey romance book, which the streamer says has instantly become its top show worldwide.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Parsons, whose film is a feature-length adaptation of his liminal horror YouTube series by the same name, is simply too young, commenters have wagered.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
Evolution and adaptation were bundled together into one continuous mechanism: adaptation was evolution.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing adaptation
"The Origin of Species by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin: Essential Words
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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