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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
adapt .
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Examples
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Our immune system "adapts" to the invading pathogens and "evolves" to fight them, such that when it encounters a biologically similar pathogen (which itself may have evolved) it has in its armory the weapons needed to fight it.
Michael Shermer: An Open Letter to Bill Maher on Vaccinations 2009
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Page 60: The term 'adap s' is a typo for 'adapts'.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
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"The flavor isn't very strong, it's like tofu in the sense that it kind of adapts to whatever you put it with," Bates says.
LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010
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People seem quite willing to grant a virtually Divine wisdom to this process, while forgetting that there is nothing in the system which "adapts".
Blah, Blah! Technology wasmall 2010
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People seem quite willing to grant a virtually Divine wisdom to this process, while forgetting that there is nothing in the system which "adapts".
Blah, Blah! Technology wasmall 2010
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An equally great fact is continuity, and it may well be that one "adapts" more successfully to certain realities by resisting them than by capitulating to them.
Encounter Books Roger Kimball 2010
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According to De Luca, “We have an outline that David wrote that kind of adapts his 2001 script into today’s times with incorporating kind of an original idea of Nic’s.”
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We have an outline that David wrote that kind of adapts his 2001 script into today’s times with incorporating kind of an original idea of Nic’s that Goyer thought added to the mix in good way-that we all thought added to the mix in a good way-that gets Ghost Rider into a bigger arena to kind of apply our story in.
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"She listens a lot to what the director wants and kind of adapts herself that way.
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Either a political party, like any other entity, adapts and changes, or it will perish.
RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says 2009
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