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The showrunners don’t mind taking advantage of adaptational freedom when it suits them.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024

There's some obsolete adaptational, vestigial hardwired propensity for hostility between clans that needs deconstructing.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2018

The causes of the modifications which characterise classificatory groups are unknown; the second class of modifications occur in response to adaptational requirements.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Bronn gives an excellent account of adaptational modifications and calls attention, just as Milne-Edwards did, to the numerous analogies of structure which adaptation brings about.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Such "heritage characters" could only be explained on the hypothesis that they had once had functional or adaptational meaning.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell