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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adapt a phrase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the modification or alteration of a specific phrase to fit a different context or purpose.
Example: "In order to make the message more relatable, we decided to adapt a phrase from a popular song."
Alternatives: "modify a phrase" or "alter a phrase".
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To adapt a phrase, primaries have consequences.
To adapt a phrase of his, he dared to "live life as though it mattered".
To adapt a phrase of Philip Larkin's, drink is to Hamilton what daffodils were to Wordsworth.
We can't retrieve the specifics, but to adapt a phrase of William James's, there is a wraith of memory.
To adapt a phrase about cricket from the writer CLR JamesWhat do they know about economics, who only economics know?
But to adapt a phrase of Donald Rumsfeld's, the Republicans have to go to war with the general they've got.
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He is, adapting a phrase much used by Christians, in the political world but not of the political world.
Adapting a phrase used by the former Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cormann told Sky News: "The problem that the Labor Party has today is that Bill Shorten is an economic girlie man.
It would be a present in which, adapting a phrase of that moment, all you needed was love.
"There goes Lyin' Ryan again," Democrats could argue, adapting a phrase Ronald Reagan used to great effect during his 1984 re-election campaign against Democrat Walter Mondale.
GeN supports the possibility of information without an informed subject, to adapt a Popperian phrase.
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