Example Sentences

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Adjusting your reproduction to your circumstances is only natural.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

Adjusting to earlier schedules, such as traveling east across time zones or working night shifts, requires the body clock to move forward.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

Adjusting for that transaction, the company’s stock is worth about $140, or less than 10 times fiscal 2027 earnings per share.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Adjusting these six settings isn’t a one-time process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Adjusting for inflation, these figures reflect a tripling of justice expenditures since 1982.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander