The phrase "adapt like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the ability to adjust or change in response to different circumstances or environments, often in a simile format.
Example: "Animals in the wild must adapt like chameleons to survive in their ever-changing habitats."
Alternatives: "adjust similarly to" or "modify like".
"You just adapt, like everybody does," adds Fouras.
Most vitally, they say, newcomers adapt like pups entering a pack.
Now scientists have developed the real-life version: robots that can "adapt like animals" to injuries and recover within minutes.
Yet some vendors are fast to adapt, like the producers of Sour Bhotz, a robot-shaped gummy edible which is among the top sellers at Oregon's Finest.
But the industry, and particularly the long-established newspapers who have seen print revenues wane, has had to adapt like everyone else.
Not every workplace is able to adapt like that, but many businesses and organisations will be wondering how much they are going to have to change to survive while the search for economic growth continues.
Every time I think I have jet lag licked, it adapts, like a virus, or the Borg.
Perhaps this is all merely our grandparents' Woolworth's five-and-dime updated by inflation to a dollar and adapted, like any good weed, to distressed areas of the landscape.
Restaurant cooking of real excellence has evolved in the last 10 years, and particularly in the last three, with bright young chefs innovating and adapting like their brethren in other major Asian capitals.
Perhaps because the guitar has not been adapted, like the violin or the piano, to carry over an orchestra's sonority, the miking "hasn't been controversial," she says.
Brokers seem to agree, saying renovated buildings are at best Class B+ space, while a new building would be Class A. "New construction is a big advantage," Mr. Gottesman said, because a new building can be designed for modern communications and other technology, rather than adapted like an older structure.
