adapted

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The memoir sold millions of copies, was published in dozens of languages and was adapted into a movie directed by Ron Howard.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

Jalapeño was built around the memory, networking and compute patterns of large language models, rather than adapted from general-purpose architectures, according to the companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

Together, these genomic signals suggest that these leopards are small because they’ve adapted that way, and not only because of isolation or genetic drift.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

The Air and Space Center opening will mark the completion of the master plan adapted by the Science Center in 1993.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond