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How to use the word adaptations in a Sentence?

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Understanding the implications of these adaptations is really important if we’re truly to understand the consequences.

Tracy Langkilde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we don't recreate Austen's nineteenth-century stories for our own time, and attract new generations of viewers, then these texts won't live on, so I'm definitely all for adaptations that use Austen's material as an inspiration, and make their own mark on it, rather than treating Jane Austen originals as blueprints that must be religiously copied.

Devoney Looser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

More recent adaptations in manga and anime don't want to portray women in a misogynistic way.

Yoshiko Okuyama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's hard to imagine something more hostile to life than an ultra-acidic volcanic lake with frequent eruptions, the low biodiversity coupled with numerous adaptations and metabolisms in our sample suggests the lake hosts highly specialized microbes for this kind of environment.

Justin Wang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the Games will go ahead. I was in Tokyo a week ago and spent 48 very intensive hours talking to the organising committee and the government, there is a cast-iron determination to stage the Games, though there is a recognition that we are still in uncertain territory. Yes, the vaccine will help, but I guess for athletes in the village and warm up track etc, there are going to be some adaptations.

Seb Coe

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

As paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.

Phillip Barden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Hell ants have two features found in no living species : highly specialized scythe-like mandibles and a wide diversity of horns that are present on what is essentially the forehead, one reason these fossils are compelling is that, today, we have about 15,000 known species of ants with all kinds of adaptations, from agricultural leaf-cutter ants with scissor-like mouthparts to army ants specialized as nomadic predatory raiders.

Phillip Barden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Fossilized behavior is exceedingly rare, predation( the act of predator attacking prey) especially so, as paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.

Phillip Barden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Now we know that they probably had more bird-like metabolisms and adaptations, allowing them to survive harsher environments, and for herbivorous dinosaurs to survive on a lower supply of fodder.

Alessandro Chiarenza

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It doesnt have any adaptations in its feet that would make us think it lived in the trees or that its a burrower.

Brandon Peecook

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Neandertals are closely related to us with complex cultural adaptations much like those of modern humans, but their physical form is different from us in important ways, understanding their adaptations allows us to understand our own evolutionary path better.

Patricia Kramer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What are some of the facilitators and barriers to establishing those programs? what are some of the adaptations that need to be made for that to be successful?

Warren Ferguson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Echolocation is probably one of the most remarkable and unique adaptations within mammals. Out of 6,000 mammal species alive today, only bats and toothed whales, along with a very. small number of small insectivores, use echolocation as a major way of navigating their environment.

Morgan Churchill

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The world urgently needs a new economic revolution driven yet again by adaptations in energy utilization, only this time with a greater consciousness of the environment and resource conservation.

Aliko Dangote

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The high investment risk climate and upfront capital cost of energy investments, particularly renewables, are critical barriers to the development of energy markets, the world urgently needs a new economic revolution driven yet again by adaptations in energy utilization, only this time with a greater consciousness of the environment and resource conservation.

Aliko Dangote

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That just wipes you out, less intense work builds your endurance, gives you adaptations that help improve your heart, nervous system, and circulatory system function, and allows you to recover from intense workouts. It’s much more sustainable than intense work.

Alex Viada

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We’ve sat in some of the classrooms using our desk with design engineers to see how we can make new adaptations for the ‘ second gen ’ of desk.

Bob Hill

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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