adaptive
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While a small decline can be adaptive, dads face mental health risks when their testosterone drops too low.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help direct the adaptive immune response.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
QNX is the operating system that enables all kinds of driver assistance: collision warnings, blind-spot notifications, adaptive cruise control, pedestrian detection and steering you back into a lane when you’re drifting into trouble.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
The adaptive category doesn't yet use the same classifications for disabilities as the Paralympics.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
If anything, it stood even more upright: at the end of the long chain of adaptive evolution was the well-adjusted, best-erected, most perfected mammal of them all: humans.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing adaptive
30 GRE Words Beginning with "A"
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