All 6 Uses

adapt
in
Do You Speak American?
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To communicate all of this, American language adapts.†
Chpt Intr. *

adapts = changes to fit a different situation
If the driver steered too hard or braked too hard, the car would adapt.†
Chpt 8

adapt = change to fit a different situation; or make suitable
They particularly like speech and machines that will adapt to be more like them.†
Chpt 8
They have the capacity to learn the user's own acoustic pattern, the rate of speech, and the intonation, and to adapt to that voice.†
Chpt 8
People can adapt, XD said, and gave himself as an example.†
Chpt 8
Will corporations looking to employ speech recognition as soon as possible to replace real human beings find it profitable to insist on technology so sophisticated that it will understand all American accents, or will it pay them to go to XD Huang's convergence model—make people adapt to the computer, not the computer to people?†
Chpt 8

Definitions:

(1) (adapt as in: adapted to the new rules)
changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable
(2) (adapted as in: the species is well adapted for)
to be especially well suited or appropriate for something
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)