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Six example sentences with adaptive, each labelled with its topic.
The adaptive player drops the video quality the moment your connection slows, then raises it again without buffering.
Technology
Mangroves are unusually adaptive, tolerating salt levels that kill nearly every other tree along the same shoreline.
Environment
The difficulty system is adaptive: die twice on one section and the game quietly slows the enemy attacks.
Gaming
The adaptive immune system learns each new invader, which is why a second bout of the same illness is usually milder.
Medicine
Worry can be adaptive in small doses, prompting a student to study, though the same habit at full volume stops her sleeping.
Psychology
The most adaptive retailers switched to curbside pickup within a week, while rivals spent a month drafting plans.
Business
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