adaptation
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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
Other yeast research has also shown that adaptation can be shaped by environmental stress and that mutations helpful in one setting may carry costs in others.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
In 2019, after a year in the writers’ room, Yang joined the cast of SNL, then booked a role in the screen adaptation of Wicked.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 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
Perhaps those cycles of colonization, adaptation, and population explosion were what selected for the Great Leap Forward, which then diffused back westward to Eurasia and Africa.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing adaptation
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