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The evidence supports the idea that Iron Age communities in this region were adapting to changing environmental and social conditions.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

The book’s collagist arrangement of autobiography and artist sketches testifies to the Modernist influences that Americans were adapting for their own material.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

At the club, he noticed dancers were adapting their movements to different tempos in a comparable manner.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

To prove that women were adapting their weaving to climate change, she had to collect remains from all over Greenland during different time periods.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

In the nurseries, the Elementary Class Consciousness lesson was over, the voices were adapting future demand to future industrial supply.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley