adaptation
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Jankovec urged the EU to intervene, writing that "relying on market forces and adaptation alone is not an option".
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Shorter formats aren’t a novelty; they are a structural adaptation to modern life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Two decades earlier, Lindy, for her part, made a smash, and a packet, with “My Rainbow Starts With Black,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, seemingly based on her own dysfunctional family, and its Oscar-winning film adaptation.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Lawrence, who worked with him on his adaptation of Hiaasen’s “Bad Monkey,” describes him as surprisingly modest, entirely unlike his swaggering creations.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we’ve all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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