Clarence Seedorf

You cannot leave the pressure and responsibility on young people in general. Young people must enter a safe and protected environment to be able to pass and fail so, little by little, they can adapt.

Dutch Coach

Luka Modric

It is very challenging to adapt to life at a big club like Madrid, but I'm not the kind of person to make excuses.

Croatian Athlete

Sergio Ramos

I have adapted and feel comfortable in the middle, but I am a world and European champion at right back.

Spanish Athlete

Bing Gordon

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

American Businessman

Maria Montessori

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

Italian Educator

Caroline Calloway

The publishing world has been very slow to adapt to the digital world.

American Celebrity

Henry Miller

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

American Author

James Lassiter

We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.

American Producer

Ian Frazier

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

American Writer

Johanna Konta

I think it's important for me to keep adapting.

British Athlete

Use 'adapt' to express flexibility and ability to thrive in changed circumstances.

New Situations

Implies personal development or improvement when adapting to new roles or tasks.

Personal Growth

'Adapt' usually follows 'to' when a person changes their behavior for a situation.

Context Matters

Adapting a story often involves creative reinterpretation to fit the new medium.

Creativity Required

'Adapt' in media refers to significant changes, not just minor edits.

Changes in Form

The adapted version might differ greatly from the original, catering to a new audience.

Original vs. Adaptation

Use 'adapt' for long-term natural changes, not quick or artificial ones.

Evolutionary Time

In biology, to 'adapt' means changes that help survival and reproduction.

Survival Strategy

Use 'adapt' to discuss making software functional in a new setup or device.

Technology Context

Adapting software often aims to make it easier for more people to use.

User-Friendly Design

 orangutans have adapted to a life high in the rain forest canopies. Many of the skills they learn are transmitted through the special bond they have with their mothers, the most extended in the animal kingdom next to humans. Orangutan mothers usually give birth to one baby at a time, waiting up to eight years before having another.

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 see them at all and then suddenly you'll get this flash of red and blue and they catch that tiny bit of light and they look absolutely stunning and then they just melt away and they're phantoms they just become invisible they're the deep calls that they make it's so perfectly adapted to that forest which is really really dense

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 But they can adapt only so far, and then when all the water is gone from the surface, microbes have only one solution They go underground. And those microbes, the rocks you see in that slide here, well, they are actually living inside rocks and they are using the protection of the translucence of the rocks

Nathalie Cabrol: How...

 by encoding important experiences into long-term memories. The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization. It's what allows elephants who survived a drought in their youth to recognize its warning signs in adulthood,

Why elephants never...

 When they're bombarded by radiation or chemotherapy, some cancer cells can effectively switch on protective shields against whatever's attacking them by changing their gene expression. Malignant cancers are complex systems that constantly evolve and adapt.

Why is it so hard to...

 and are far more common in infants that adults. Their explanation for this involves the uniquely mammalian activity of nursing. The ancient hiccup reflex may have been adapted by mammals to help remove air from the stomach as a sort of glorified burp.

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 by transferring a human consciousness into a computer. If the body is deeply mapped in the brain, then by extending our sense of self to new wearable devices, our brains may eventually adapt to a restructured version

Are you a body with a...

 adapted to have a higher melanin production threshold and more eumelanin, giving skin a darker tone. This built-in sun shield helped protect them from melanoma, likely making them evolutionarily fitter

The science of skin...

 secret about the whole thing was that if somebody in her life knew how to easily adapt the toy she could participate she could be an active participant in play she could make that remote control car

Accessible fart machines...

 They can adapt if they have the resources, they can move, or they can suffer and die. And if they're moving, this becomes a security concern worldwide.