The phrase "adapt ideas from" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of taking concepts or thoughts from one source and modifying them for your own use or context.
Example: "In my research paper, I plan to adapt ideas from various authors to support my thesis."
Alternatives: "incorporate concepts from" or "modify thoughts from".
Surely there is no crime in creating Halloween costumes, horror movies and Broadway musicals that freely adapt ideas from Shelley's book.
This month's edition of Ideas for E.L.L's celebrates the holidays — Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's, even winter break — but, of course, just as you can pick, choose and adapt ideas from previous posts in this series, much of what we suggest below can be taught any time of year.
What can you borrow or how can you adapt ideas from other places to your needs?
To prove this, we adapt ideas from [40, Theorem 3.4, (vi) (Rightarrow ) (v)] (see also [40]) in the context of groups and metric spaces to the algebraic setting.
I encourage interested groups especially those at schools, museums, libraries, nature centers, and other institutions to adapt ideas from our organization to fit their own circumstances and to start planning their own Darwin Days for the celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday in 2009.
The Martin Aerodynamic adapted ideas from the aero pioneer Paul Jaray.
Its title, in Bengali, was "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?," and it adapted ideas from his new book, a primer on cosmology.
In the "Greensward" plan you can see how Olmsted and Vaux adapted ideas from Repton, Ruskin and other Romantics to fit an urban environment.
Military khaki, however recast, is still a common street look, and Mr. Van Noten's method of mixing olive drab with tailoring or reinterpreting the trench coat as a skirt merely adapts ideas from men's fashion, notably by Junya Watanabe and Raf Simons.
Second, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., who popularized the term 'landscape architecture,' adapted ideas from especially English estate designs for North American urban parks.
Hereby we present a direct proof for the sake of completeness, adapting ideas from Kerr and Li in [40, Theorem 3.4, (vi) (Rightarrow ) (v)] to the setting of extended metric spaces (see also [40]).
