How to Use adaption in a Sentence
adaption
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None of this is to say adaption of the rule has been seamless.
—Jake Blumgart, Slate Magazine, 14 Mar. 2017
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What’s your thought process when making an adaption?
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Mar. 2026
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The film is an adaption of the Colleen Hoover novel of the same name.
—Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
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Besse had worked hard to get a solo in her school’s adaption of Bring It On!
—Rose Minutaglio, Seventeen, 15 Mar. 2018
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Christian isn’t the only one to not land a role in the adaption after much campaigning.
—Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 15 Nov. 2019
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Amazon is also working on a video game adaption of the Fallout games.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
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With a new silver-screen adaption coming to theaters this fall, now is the time redress that oversight.
—Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2021
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The book has sold a million copies and is in the works for an Apple TV adaption.
—Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
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Instead, Mortiz created a video adaption that was shared via the web.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 2 June 2025
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Rest easy Uncharted fans, North still made his way into the film adaption in a small cameo.
—Vulture, 19 Feb. 2022
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If that's not badass enough, Angelina Jolie will play Hegar in the film adaption.
—People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 28 May 2017
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Webber has been pushing for a film adaption of Cats since 2013.
—Katherine Schaffstall, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2019
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This time, the adaption comes from John Murphy, who also directs.
—Mark Lowry, star-telegram, 19 July 2017
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For a long time, the line was there hasn’t been a good dramatic adaption of a video game so the bar for doing that is really low.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
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Watch the film online, and then catch the latest Spielberg adaption to see how the iconic story has spanned decades.
—Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2021
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Hankey will show some birds of prey and discuss their characteristics and adaptions.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
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Wheelchair football is played with adaptions to the more familiar game to match it with the abilities of the athletes.
—Chris Ochsner, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2024
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Al Gore's doc will now go up against 'The Dark Tower' adaption at the box office.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2017
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The film is an adaption of the 1976 Daniel Pinkwater novel of the same name.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Lea Michele may not have been cast in the revival of Funny Girl or in the film adaption of Wicked.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021
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The mega-producer is now working on an adaption of the musical The Prom.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 27 June 2019
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The most significant tweak that Matos made was the adaption of a permanent two-strike approach.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
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Like many other recent true crime adaptions, the show has nothing to say, and there's zero artistry in its lurid retelling of a man murdering his wife and son.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
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The show is a modernization as well as an adaption—the chicken, the egg, the rooster, and the incubator all at once.
—Ruth Curry, Esquire, 15 May 2017
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The novel has been translated in 17 languages and will be the third adaption of one of Kidd’s bestselling works.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
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This essay is an adaption of an earlier version that appeared in the New Yorker.
—Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
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The actress is slated to star in the crime thriller Finest Kind as well as an adaption of the science fiction film Dune.
—Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 14 Sep. 2020
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Nonetheless, the civilian bed openings are far from the only adaption the VA has been forced to make in recent weeks.
—Fox News, 15 Apr. 2020
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Cast and filmmakers gather in Manhattan for the premiere of the big-screen adaption of the Broadway hit.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
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The series is an adaption of the 2013 award-winning horror novel of the same name by Joe Hill.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
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