as in adapting
to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation
after going on the night shift, he found it difficult to adjust his sleep schedule adjust the amount of sugar in the recipe to your taste
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Recent Examples of adjusting
Although Mejuri’s prices are higher than Pandora’s, the company is still adjusting them in line with its ethos.
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Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
That is not about increasing intensity but about adjusting direction.
—Csaba Toth, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
And that’s before adjusting for inflation.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 May 2026
As a result, what works one season may need adjusting the next.
—Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 24 May 2026
Its Liquid Retina display has True Tone technology, adjusting automatically to ambient room lighting.
—Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 24 May 2026
Brandon Sink, chief financial officer at Lowe’s, said the fuel prices were manageable during the first quarter but are getting harder to navigate, which the company’s doing by working with suppliers, including adjusting contracts where possible.
—Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
Google has been able to grow its search advertising revenue while adjusting the product into more of a chatbot experience, in a bid to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
Hunting EVs metals To address the issue, the team designed an adaptive extraction plant capable of adjusting process parameters and chemical additives based on the composition of local thermal waters.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
That is not about increasing intensity but about adjusting direction.
—Csaba Toth, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
And that’s before adjusting for inflation.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 May 2026
As a result, what works one season may need adjusting the next.
—Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 24 May 2026
Its Liquid Retina display has True Tone technology, adjusting automatically to ambient room lighting.
—Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 24 May 2026
Brandon Sink, chief financial officer at Lowe’s, said the fuel prices were manageable during the first quarter but are getting harder to navigate, which the company’s doing by working with suppliers, including adjusting contracts where possible.
—Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
Google has been able to grow its search advertising revenue while adjusting the product into more of a chatbot experience, in a bid to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
Hunting EVs metals To address the issue, the team designed an adaptive extraction plant capable of adjusting process parameters and chemical additives based on the composition of local thermal waters.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjusting
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The passage leads them to discuss the challenges of adapting Morrison’s novels for film, the power of evoking the inexplicable, and the influence of African folk tales on Morrison’s work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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At Variety, Bolies will be the publication’s lead reporter for AI, delivering news, analysis and features about the biggest players in the AI industry and about how Hollywood is adapting to the rise of the most significant advancement in computing technology in a generation.—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 May 2026
Verb
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Joy and Jill are the fourth generation of a tailoring family that, up until five years ago, had only focused on menswear.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
19 May 2026
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Even in the United States, his student turned assistant Henry LeTang became the tap teacher to hundreds, from starlets needing tailoring to the great Gregory Hines.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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Skeptics also offer psychological explanations, noting that many eyewitness accounts contain tropes from popular sci-fi stories, conforming to cultural expectations of alien encounters.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Generations into a belief that morphed into a movement, nearly a decade since the start of the bid process and four years of methodically conforming to FIFA standards later, the epicenter of Kansas City’s monumental opportunity to play 2026 World Cup host was unveiled on Monday.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
12 May 2026
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Keep putting that chip on his shoulder.—
Bruce Feldman,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Goldstein co-wrote the script with fellow Ted Lasso co-creator Joe Kelly and penned it specifically for Lopez, while also putting himself in the leading man role.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2026
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