adapt (something) from (something)
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To create one thing from another. The film was adapted from a famous novel. Is there any way to adapt an electric vehicle from a gas-powered one? Did you read that juicy article? The editor adapted everything from the author's own letters to his wife.
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adapt something from something
to derive something from something else; to create by modifying something else. I adapted my new musical from a novel.
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