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  • verb Present participle of readapt.

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Examples

  • LAWL um, you kinda named the one drama that I cannot stand in all its incarnation. *is bricked* My sincerest wish is for Asia to STOP readapting this story from a very mediocre manga and cease its spreading around the Asian continent but who's listening?

    Casting Ash in a J-drama AKA If Japan Ever Decided to Make a Lesbian!Cinderella Drama.. Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

  • After one commenter, Hans, rightly noted that the probability distribution of numbers thrown by the four ancient Egyptian casting sticks were not the same as the even distribution of a die, I went to work readapting the game to reflect this.

    Revisal to my Sinat game 2009

  • As translated by Johannes Göransson, the language spreads like an unquantifiable contagion, continually readapting to defy the hostile environs of a literal mind that would demand word and image work to merely work towards clarification and reification.

    WITH DEER by AASE BERG, Trans. by JOHANNES GORANSSON (2) EILEEN 2009

  • Oh by the way I love how the guys behind this are pulling the same trick as the people behind the americanized Old Boy remake and claiming "we're not remaking a foreign movie, but going back to the source material and readapting that!" as though it will somehow make for a better reaction.

    Elias Koteas, Cara Buono and Sasha Barrese Join Let Me In | /Film 2009

  • After one commenter, Hans, rightly noted that the probability distribution of numbers thrown by the four ancient Egyptian casting sticks were not the same as the even distribution of a die, I went to work readapting the game to reflect this.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • But after 37 years in a controlled environment, there are major obstacles to readapting to that life in the ocean.

    Free Lolita! A Whale Story 2008

  • Much attention has centered on post-traumatic stress disorder complications, including depression, substance abuse, excessive anger and a general difficulty readapting to civilian life.

    Alcohol Abuse Another Obstacle for Returning Troops 2008

  • By midyear next year, people would be readapting their behaviour, and if they did not do so, they would be forced to by circumstances.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • I'm wondering, how concerned are you that this is becoming more of a political problem on a technical problem in how to deal with readapting the oil for food program?

    CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003 2003

  • He was readapting, trying out different looks, trying to find himself again.

    IN FIDELITY M.J.ROSE 2001

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