readjusting

verb

present participle of readjust
as in adjusting

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  1. adjusting
  2. adapting
  3. shaping
  4. acclimating
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  • Mistakes happen in football, especially when a team’s adjusting to a new coaching staff, new technique, hasn’t carved out an identity yet, and is working toward creating culture.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Fox News offers stability this election season, while many of its rivals are adjusting to corporate maneuvers.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of adjusting
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  • Those expenses are rising as utilities invest more in aging infrastructure and in adapting their systems to cope with the effects of climate change, Food and Water Watch said in its study.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In the kids space, Studiocanal is also adapting Dermot O’Leary’s Toto the Ninja Cat and Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking with Heyday.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of adapting
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  • Intocable have been shaping Mexican pop culture with their norteño hits since the early Nineties.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Every meal and every sip is a small vote for which microbes get to flourish, and that daily tally may be shaping far more than your next dental checkup.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of shaping
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  • Rams players, however, are arriving in Melbourne just one day before the game, while their opponents chartered a plane last week and have already been acclimating to the 17-hour time zone difference.
    — Jessica Golden, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • For all his exposure to high-level competition while growing up in Southern California and playing for Team USA, Crow-Armstrong was still only 21, acclimating to the speed of the game and trying to fit into a team undergoing a late-season collapse.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of acclimating
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“Readjusting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/readjusting. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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