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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

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

"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

And he reminded her of how quickly she was adapting, his tone always calm, always consoling.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie