Example Sentences

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Daoist texts teach readers to adopt a stance that is typically called wuwei, meaning nonaction, softness, or adaptiveness to the circumstances at hand.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

For decades, menswear’s slow adaptiveness on the red carpet has felt positively glacial next to women’s.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2020

As they stand beside each other in this engaged and absorbing novel, the two narratives reflect each other, reminding us of the dependability and adaptiveness of our drive toward survival.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018

If so, Luo says, it would imply that the evolutionary groundwork for this surprising diversity and adaptiveness among early mammals was laid down much earlier than researchers suspected.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 12, 2015

There was about him a sturdy persistence and the good common sense that lends an adaptiveness or pliability of disposition, so to speak, that is often mistaken for content.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie