adjust
verb (used with object)
to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate.
had adjusted
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past perfectof adjust.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The researchers argue that the teeth studied clearly belonged to mosasaurs that had adjusted to these new conditions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2025
By the time he began working with Gkolomeev, Hawke had adjusted his plan to five days a week to prevent burnout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
If Congress had adjusted for inflation the salary that Supreme Court justices made in 1969...,
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
Its defense had adjusted — astonishingly so — and put on a master class in the second and third quarters, along with the early part of the fourth.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
These perky, upright birds had been lost from the ice islands of Antarctica hundreds of thousands of years ago and, unable to swim back, had adjusted to the tropical heat.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
