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adapts - definition and meaning
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verb adapt .
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Our immune system "adapts " to the invading pathogens and "evolves" to fight them, such that when it encounters a biologically similar pathogen (which itself may have evolved) it has in its armory the weapons needed to fight it.
Michael Shermer: An Open Letter to Bill Maher on Vaccinations 2009
Page 60: The term 'adap s' is a typo for 'adapts '.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
"The flavor isn't very strong, it's like tofu in the sense that it kind of adapts to whatever you put it with," Bates says.
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People seem quite willing to grant a virtually Divine wisdom to this process, while forgetting that there is nothing in the system which "adapts ".
Blah, Blah! Technology wasmall 2010
People seem quite willing to grant a virtually Divine wisdom to this process, while forgetting that there is nothing in the system which "adapts ".
Blah, Blah! Technology wasmall 2010
An equally great fact is continuity, and it may well be that one "adapts " more successfully to certain realities by resisting them than by capitulating to them.
Encounter Books Roger Kimball 2010
According to De Luca, “We have an outline that David wrote that kind of adapts his 2001 script into today’s times with incorporating kind of an original idea of Nic’s.”
Exclusive GHOST RIDER 2 Update from Producer Mike De Luca; Sequel Title May Be GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE – Collider.com 2010
We have an outline that David wrote that kind of adapts his 2001 script into today’s times with incorporating kind of an original idea of Nic’s that Goyer thought added to the mix in good way-that we all thought added to the mix in a good way-that gets Ghost Rider into a bigger arena to kind of apply our story in.
Exclusive GHOST RIDER 2 Update from Producer Mike De Luca; Sequel Title May Be GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE – Collider.com 2010
"She listens a lot to what the director wants and kind of adapts herself that way.
Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010
Either a political party, like any other entity, adapts and changes, or it will perish.
RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says 2009
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