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  • Exhibiting the survival instinct of adaptation, he had developed a taste for cafeteria food, in particular Jell-O and ham.†  (source)
    adaptation = something adjusted for circumstances; or an adjustment for circumstances
  • The forces of nature inevitably unleash themselves in such a manner that the necessity for adaptation will be stirred.†  (source)
  • Bud notices a lot of Du's genius is for scavenging, adaptation, appropriate technology.†  (source)
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  • The attacks relied on this critical adaptation.†  (source)
    adaptation = something adjusted for circumstances; or an adjustment for circumstances
  • I have nothing to show except bad film adaptations of my life.†  (source)
    adaptations = adjustments for circumstances
  • And so we have supper (Waitrose Cumberland Pie) and watch an Agatha Christie adaption together, and then I go upstairs to my old bedroom, put on an old nightie, and go to bed.†  (source)
    adaption = adjustment for circumstances; or something adjusted for circumstances
  • Spedling's brief notes hypothesized that the humans were survivors of a missing seedship colony from three centuries earlier and clearly described a group suffering all of the classic retrograde cultural effects of extreme isolation, inbreeding, and overadaptation.†  (source)
    overadaptation = excessive adjustment for circumstances; or something that adjusted excessively due to circumstances
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overadaptation means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
  • I would like my DVD of the movie Adaptation.†  (source)
    Adaptation = something adjusted for circumstances; or an adjustment for circumstances
  • I've viewed my life until now as a series of unrelated adaptations, from Irish Niamh to American Dorothy to the reincarnated Vivian.†  (source)
    adaptations = adjustments for circumstances
  • Production of the film adaptation brought Gregory Peck to town for the infamous courtroom scenes; his performance won him an Academy Award.†  (source)
    adaptation = something adjusted for circumstances; or an adjustment for circumstances
  • The PRINCE is quite fascinated by their costume and they demonstrate the adaptations they have made to it, pulling down the mask to demonstrate how the egungun normally appears, then showing the various press-button controls they have innovated for the face flaps, the sleeves, etc. They demonstrate the dance steps and the guttural sounds made by the egungun, harass other dancers in the hall, MRS PILKINGS playing the 'restrainer' to PILKINGS' manic darts.†  (source)
    adaptations = adjustments for circumstances
  • As Crake used to say, Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.†  (source)
    adaptation = something adjusted for circumstances; or an adjustment for circumstances
  • They are, rather, local adaptations, provincial degenerations, and immensely old fossilizations of folkways that were developed in very different lands, often under much less simple circumstances, and by other races.†  (source)
    adaptations = adjustments for circumstances
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