adaptive

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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

By doing so, it links the body's two main defense systems -- innate and adaptive immunity -- into a coordinated and longer lasting response.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

“All right, so, B. cepacia is a hardy bacterium. It’s so adaptive that it actually feeds on penicillin instead of being attacked by it. So our first line of defense is...”

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott