The phrase "adapt a technique" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the modification or adjustment of a specific method or approach to suit different circumstances or needs.
Example: "In order to improve our results, we need to adapt a technique that has proven successful in similar projects."
Alternatives: "modify a method" or "adjust a strategy."
War and peace, function and style: Charles and Ray Eames adapted a technique for bending plywood into splints and made furniture.
They suggest adapting a technique called direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS), which has been widely used in both GPS and in probes that have been sent into deep space.
To find out, cognitive scientist Ernő Téglás of the Central European University in Budapest adapted a technique that had previously been used only on children.
Behavioral biologists Leanne Proops, Karen McComb, and colleagues at the University of Sussex in the U.K. adapted a technique normally used to study human infants, who cannot verbalize their thoughts.
A Monte Carlo simulation is used to model the acceleration process, adapting a technique that has been successfully tested on earlier IP shocks possessing minimal pick-up ion presence.
This is done adapting a technique little exploited in the literature, which is based on user-defined general impressions (subjective knowledge).
21. "Phenomenological bracketing," which Husserl also called the phenomenological épochè, thus adapting a technique from the Skeptics, means, simply, temporarily setting aside judgments learned through culture, including all the sciences.
Adapting a technique that had been used to determine temperature fluctuations in limestone, Eagle and his colleagues analyzed the isotope composition of the mineral bioapatite, which is found in bones and teeth.
The researchers adapted a technique used to study the impact of excess nutrients on stream ecosystems: They took 30-ml cups filled with agar and added one kind of pharmaceutical, then covered them with a filter on which the biofilms could grow.
Adapting a technique developed for primates [ 15], an incision roughly 4 cm long was made just posterior to the right femur, running parallel to the femur.
