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How to use the word adjusts in a Sentence?

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For me, the biggest challenge is the lack of sleep. Not the giving up of food and drink – your body adjusts pretty quickly to that – but the lack of sleep and the interrupted sleep makes it much more challenging.

Mazen Basrawi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's clear that over the past two years, the combination of the pandemic, record low mortgage rates and the opportunity to work remotely spurred greater demand, now, as the market adjusts to a higher rate environment, we are seeing a period of deflated sales activity until the market normalizes.

Freddie Mac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's clear that over the past two years, the combination of the pandemic, record low mortgage rates, and the opportunity to work remotely spurred greater demand, now, as the market adjusts to a higher rate environment, we are seeing a period of deflated sales activity until the market normalizes.

Sam Khater

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!

Mordechai Anielewicz

added by Normando
3 years ago

At the moment, the positive inflationary pressures caused by trade tariffs are being beaten back by dollar strength, as the tariffs take hold and the market adjusts to the effects, we expect inflationary pressures to increase, which will benefit holders of gold and commodities.

William Rhind

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In Nigeria, economic activity is now projected to contract in 2016, as the economy adjusts to foreign currency shortages as a result of lower oil receipts, low power generation, and weak investor confidence.

The IMF

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think it’s important that youth sports addresses it, doesn’t scare people, doesn’t take people away from the sport but adjusts rules accordingly.

Taylor Twellman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The problem with reading is that everybody reads at a different reading speed. So what Booktrack does is as you read we know how many words are on the page, every time you turn the page we're measuring how fast or slow you're reading, and then the soundtrack dynamically adjusts to match.

Paul Cameron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This massive cushion has inflated even as the global oil market adjusts to $50 per barrel. Demand growth has risen to a five-year high of nearly 2 million bpd... But gains in demand have been outpaced by vigorous production from OPEC and resilient non-OPEC supply - with Russian output at a post-Soviet record and likely to remain robust in 2016 as well.

The IEA

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Whilst valuations in Saudi Arabia in particular have fallen over a period of several months, we remain cautious and extremely selective, the Saudi economy is undergoing structural changes as The Saudi economy adjusts to a period of low oil prices, which means that the risk premiums used to value stocks need to be further adjusted, particularly in certain sectors.

Sachin Mohindra

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The sound adjusts itself when you move your head, so you get a slightly different balance of players in the orchestra if you look at Gustavo (Dudamel) versus if you look at the violins versus if you look at the back of the room. I think that helps you feel very present and within the experience yourself.

Amy Seidenwurm

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He is attentive to clues of where that person is coming from and adjusts his response accordingly.

Kendra Doersam

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is a revolution in the distribution and consumption of information, and there are big things that are going to happen. The old models are starting to fall. And how we adjust to them, and how everyone adjusts to them -- you know, entertainment television, the movies, the news, politicians and the government trying to get their message out -- is going to be a massively fascinating thing.

Dan Pfeiffer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind’s focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
9 years ago

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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