adapts
- present tense form of adapt (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The side that adapts faster imposes costs on its enemy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026
Produced by the brilliant team behind “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey, Tom Campbell and RuPaul himself — “Stop! That! Train!” adapts the humor of the Emmy-winning reality show for the big screen.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
The Kings’ success will rest in how well Los Angeles adapts to Laviolette’s coaching trident.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
It is how he characterizes Denali’s TransportVehicle architecture, a modular platform it adapts to carry amyloid antibodies, tau gene-silencing antisense oligonucleotides, or the enzymes that treat some rare, but fatal, genetic disorders.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
Against these carcinogens which his own activities had created man had no protection, for even as his biological heritage has evolved slowly, so it adapts slowly to new conditions.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
