not adapted

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“That leaves us with a financial system that is not adapted to fast-growing firms,” he says.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Gallio and his team were the first to sequence the snow fly genome and compare it with related insects that are not adapted to cold environments.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

The iconic trees are not adapted to wildfire, meaning any fire damage can be devastating to the population.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

That said, our first attempts to generate new hybrids did not create strains with the characteristics we wanted – they were not adapted to the conditions of fermentation.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2024

However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond