The phrase "adapting to first" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to convey the idea of adjusting to a primary or initial condition, but it is incomplete without additional context.
Example: "In the process of adapting to first impressions, we often overlook deeper qualities."
Alternatives: "adjusting to initial" or "acclimating to primary".
In order to maintain homeostasis; cells, tissues and organisms adapt to first cope with the lack of oxygen and then act to redress the underlying cause [ 3].
Background Little is known about how migrants adapt to first-world public health systems.
The Yankees played the last two innings with Scott Brosius in center field, the first time he had played there in more than three years, and three other players not in their natural positions, Soriano adapting to second base, Chuck Knoblauch learning left field and Sojo at third base.
Just as few war plans survive the first engagement with the enemy, so do presidential perceptions adapt to the first handshake with a rival and a first tour of the world aboard Air Force One.
Moreover, adapting to difficult circumstances, his first success came not as a musical performer, but as a DJ on a Memphis radio station, WDIA.
His luck was reversed shortly after with a new success: Utamaro began producing the first, adapting to the genre of portraits of beauties.
If two periodic vibrations are presented to the same finger, such that the second vibration engages the same neurons that have adapted to the first vibration, frequency discrimination thresholds should be particularly low.
One of the realities the 2-2 Jets are adapting to this season, their third with Rex Ryan as coach, is that they are no longer the hunters.
Back in 1964, in Kisses for My President, a rather lumbering sexist comedy, Bergen had been vibrant as the first female US president, though the movie mainly concerned the problems of Fred MacMurray trying to adapt to being First Husband.
The Grizzlies looked like the newcomers still trying to adapt to their first conference finals appearance.
