adapt
verb (used with object)
to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly.
was adapting
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past progressiveof adapt.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Sewing said the bank was adapting to long-term trends ranging from a geopolitical realignment that increases uncertainty and clients’ need for financial-risk management to an aging population that alters wealth accumulation and private-pension dynamics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
By the age of 14, Davis had been kicked out of school, kicked out of his childhood home and was adapting to the responsibility of caring for newborn twin sons.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
She was learning to live in a changing, damaged body, just as the forest over her head was adapting its own series of catastrophes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said Morgan was adapting to playing in a forward line with Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
She had wanted to go to Columbia in New York or Adelphi in Brooklyn, but Ben said that part of education was adapting oneself to a new environment.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
