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  • verb Present participle of adapt.

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Examples

  • The language is different, and in adapting a comic to screen one has to understand the difference for an effective translation.

    April 23rd, 2010 daj42 2010

  • The language is different, and in adapting a comic to screen one has to understand the difference for an effective translation.

    Review of The Losers (2010) daj42 2010

  • However access to well trained inexpensive doctors and a people experienced in adapting to peak oil through localized agriculture could be an invaluable resource for the U.S.

    Crystal balls : The Five Year View Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009

  • He's not a well-remembered name-he's probably best known for having sold the title Blade Runner to Ridley Scott, even though it was only the title Scott used in adapting Philip K. Dick.

    SF Signal Interviews Robert J. Sawyer 2009

  • However access to well trained inexpensive doctors and a people experienced in adapting to peak oil through localized agriculture could be an invaluable resource for the U.S.

    Archive 2009-10-18 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009

  • [4] I have been amusing myself as I walkd, in adapting words to two or three of his lessons. —

    Letter 265 2009

  • It divides your attention, takes you out of both the story and the film, and makes you think about the choices the filmmaker made in adapting the story.

    Wishing Woody had shot the narrator or, better yet, not shot Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2009

  • The husband-and-wife screenwriting team of Irving Ravetch, who has died aged 89, and Harriet Frank Jr specialised in adapting the work of writers as varied as William Faulkner, Larry McMurtry and Elmore Leonard.

    Irving Ravetch obituary Michael Carlson 2010

  • What were some of the challenges you faced in adapting Taft into

    A Conversation with Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto 2010

  • The language is different, and in adapting a comic to screen one has to understand the difference for an effective translation.

    April 2010 2010

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