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The phrase "adapted the work" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to modifying or altering a piece of work, such as a book, film, or artwork, to fit a new context or purpose.
Example: "The director adapted the work of the famous author into a screenplay that captured the essence of the original story."
Alternatives: "modified the work" or "altered the work".
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Simon Beaufoy adapted the work for the stage from his own Oscar-nominated film script.
Still, he adapted the work for the stage at the American Place Theater in Manhattan in 1981.
A year later, she married Ronald Gow, one of the two writers who adapted the work for the stage.
Hrabal subsequently adapted the work as a screenplay, which won the 1967 Academy Award for best foreign film.
In the crime series Wallander (2008– ), which adapted the work of novelist Henning Mankell, Branagh played the title role.
The director, Byungkoo Ahn, adapted the work from his father's version, which first appeared at La MaMa in 1977.
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White artists adapt the work of an African-American artist, but drain it of racial content.
One approach would be to adapt the work of the U.S.-based Sustainability AChineseng Standards Board to a context context.
But over the next 20 years, Mr. Harbison kept adapting the work and scored it for large chamber ensemble.
The husband-and-wife screenwriting team of Irving Ravetch, who has died aged 89, and Harriet Frank Jr specialised in adapting the work of writers as varied as William Faulkner, Larry McMurtry and Elmore Leonard.
Adapting the work of Derek Parfit, he could have argued that selves are less real than we think, and that midlife crises are, therefore, about nothing.
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