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adaptability

[uh-dap-tuh-bil-i-tee] / əˌdæp təˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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The firm’s U.S. division says it will recognize people who show skills like adaptability, innovation and judgment, as well as experimentation with AI.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

According to the researchers, the discovery also demonstrates the remarkable adaptability of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium responsible for treponemal diseases.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Its weights, though, are open for users to play with, giving the model a level of adaptability.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

What Howe was criticised for towards the end of his tenure was a supposed lack of adaptability.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Changing economics and demographics require flexibility and adaptability.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

As WPA extends from storm sewers to nursery schools, so the interests and adaptabilities of Harry Lloyd Hopkins are equally diverse.

From Time Magazine Archive

With her quick perceptions and adaptabilities she would soon learn to care more about the quality of the reflecting surface; and meanwhile no criticism of his should mar her pleasure.

From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

The text has been revised and, where necessary, rewritten, and is superior to the editions now current both in literary excellence and in the valuable desideratum of "accents" and other adaptabilities to musical utterance.

From Martha or, The Fair at Richmond by Friedrich von Flotow

It had been agreed that Bubbles, having of the two the more feminine adaptabilities of voice, should do the talking.

From The Penalty by Howard Chandler Christy

So also in the adaptabilities and the conveniences of life, in its versatilities and in its enjoyments.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick




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