adaptive
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For her, adaptive cheer is "probably the most important thing in the world".
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
An executive order from Trump in December 2025, entitled “Ensuring American Space Superiority,” called for “creating a responsive and adaptive national security space architecture” through allied cooperation and private sector investments.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
In patients who already produce normal or elevated levels of endogenous GLP-1, flooding those same receptors with long-acting agonists may push a finely tuned system past its adaptive range.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026
Humans are surprisingly resilient and adaptive, and our desire to be creative and to be in groups won’t go away.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
It can be argued that youthful derring- do is in fact evolutionarily adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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30 GRE Words Beginning with "A"
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