adapted

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Rather than flying like modern birds, these dinosaurs were probably adapted for gliding.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

One of the exhibition's central stories focuses on the peppered moth, which adapted during the industrial revolution by developing darker colouring to blend in with soot-covered buildings.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026

It pitched software that could sift through vast intelligence datasets to flag threats -- an idea adapted from PayPal's fraud-detection systems.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

Filipino laborers came to Mexico via colonialism, and adapted and adopted champoy with spices and chilies from Mexico to become chamoy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

But Homo sapiens, whose body was adapted to living in the African savannah rather than in the lands of snow and ice, devised ingenious solutions.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari