as in adaptation
the act or process of changing something to fit a new use or situation
the publishing industry's necessary adjustment to the age of electronic media
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Recent Examples of adjustment
How is Burton finding the adjustment to a new house?
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Miles Socha, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
The agency still released its September Consumer Price Index, which was needed to calculate the 2026 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
The adjustment, meant to help ensure benefits keep up with inflation, will add about $56 a month on average to retirement benefit payments starting in January.
—Sharon Epperson,stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
Hull is used to making adjustments.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
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Miles Socha, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
The agency still released its September Consumer Price Index, which was needed to calculate the 2026 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
The adjustment, meant to help ensure benefits keep up with inflation, will add about $56 a month on average to retirement benefit payments starting in January.
—Sharon Epperson,stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
Hull is used to making adjustments.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjustment
Noun
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But perhaps her best turn was in both the stage and subsequent television adaptation of Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, a play about notorious British art expert and former Soviet agent Sir Anthony Blunt.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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The director is in talks to helm an adaptation of the Dark Horse Comic Last Flight Out.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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This may leave countries to do more in terms of adaption to the changing climate whether or not the shift reaches the most apocalyptic forecasts of climate campaigners.—
Matthew Tostevin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 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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“Adjustment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjustment. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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