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- noun A second or subsequent
adaptation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He said something about this not being a remake of the movie but a readaptation of the book.
Elias Koteas, Cara Buono and Sasha Barrese Join Let Me In | /Film 2009
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Havana says everyone on a proposed delegation of children, school teachers, and medical specialists, 31 people in all, is indispensable for Elian's well-being and readaptation.
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The readaptation process started pretty much like it had after other flights I made.
Post-Flight Press Conference Upon Returning From The Russian Space Station Mir 1997
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Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Totality means continuity -- the carrying on of a former habit of action with the readaptation necessary to keep it alive and growing.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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Above all, it would train power of readaptation to changing conditions so that future workers would not become blindly subject to a fate imposed upon them.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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* -- A more important matter, however, is the extension and the readaptation of the constitution through parliamentary enactment.
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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The good of any use is the principal of readaptation.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories Gertrude Stein 1910
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Last comes a stage when retentiveness is exhausted and all that happens is at once forgotten; a vain, because unpractical, repetition of the past takes the place of plasticity and fertile readaptation.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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