The phrase "and trying to adjust" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an ongoing effort to adapt or change in response to a situation.
Example: "She felt overwhelmed by the new environment, and trying to adjust was proving to be more challenging than she anticipated."
Alternatives: "and attempting to adapt" or "and working to modify".
Sunao used to work as a business reporter in Tokyo, but now she was studying accounting and trying to adjust to life in rural Missouri.
"It is problematic when you have a global company trying to make major changes and trying to adjust to changing demands of consumers when you don't have a diverse board, a board that's fresh," she said.
"Good halfway houses will understand that leaving prison and trying to adjust to the outside world can be a very rocky transition," Nancy La Vigne, the director of the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, says.
"Which is exactly the wrong thing," Professor Lockley said, because your internal clock is still set to New York time, and trying to adjust too quickly will only exhaust you.
By then he had gained enough clout to direct JW Coop, which he co-wrote, produced and starred in, as a rodeo rider newly released from prison and trying to adjust to society.
Any man who's had a baby, spent a week or two struggling to adjust it to the world (and trying to adjust to its world) will tell you the heartbreak of having to leave him or her at home for the first time to return to work.
We assessed the composition of the baseline and follow-up and tried to adjust for the potential compositional bias, although the magnitude of this adjustment ended up being small.
"I guess I just have to figure out, you know, what about my game brings out the best in him and try to adjust.
She swallows their slights and tries to adjust her performance to their expectations, making herself miserable in ways that she can't entirely recognize or acknowledge.
