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adapt
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adapt someone or something
to something to cause someone or something to change, adjust to, or get used to something else. Can't you adapt yourself to my way of doing things?

adapt something for something

to change or alter something for use with something else. Has this furnace been adapted for natural gas?

adapt something from something

to derive something from something else; to create by modifying something else. I adapted my new musical from a novel.

adapt something to something

to convert something to fit or work with something else. We converted our furnace to natural gas.

adapt to something

to adapt or get used to someone or something. Please try to adapt to our routine.


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Tooby and Cosmides add, however, that the psychological adaptations underpinning our enjoyment of fiction may not detect what experiences are actually adaptively organizing in the evolutionarily novel environments in which we live today, only what experiences manifest cues that would have made them adaptively organizing in the circumstances and conditions prevailing throughout the vast majority of human evolutionary history (in the human environment of evolutionary adaptedness or EEA).
Slash fiction and human mating psychology by Symons, Don / The Journal of Sex Research
This type of developmental trend may be depicting the adaptedness of the organism to changing environmental and intrinsic challenges.
Fetal and Neonatal Hand Movement by Chescheir, Nancy C / Physical Therapy
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