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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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The solution is to teach them to think adaptively, and that was the reason the JFK Special Warfare Center and School created the Adaptive Thinking and Leadership program in 2003.
``This type of character building is so beautiful, it adds so much to the architectural streetscape, and the city should do everything they can to help the owners adaptively reuse the building in a very creative way,'' she said.
Based on the bootstrap estimate of bias, the jitter standard deviation estimate is adaptively corrected.
 
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