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
She added that drones were a "new threat" and as such, the airline was adapting its contingency plans.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
He didn’t speak English and was adapting to a new high school in Fresno.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
"Whenever I wrote for 'Agatha Christie's Poirot,' . . . I could do almost anything with the stories I was adapting except change the murder and the solution," said Horowitz.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
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
