Apt

an apt metaphor

apt punishment

a river […] apt to be forded by a lamb

While we to Jove the pure libations pay, / Than Jove what apter claims the hallow'd lay?

This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.

that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers

Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.

On Wednesday night, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against a new California law that makes physicians subject to professional discipline for sharing COVID-19 "misinformation" with their patients. U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb concluded that California's definition of misinformation is unconstitutionally vague, failing to give doctors fair notice of which conduct the statute covers, which is a basic requirement of due process. That vagueness is especially problematic in this context, Shubb said, because it is apt to have a chilling effect on speech protected by the First Amendment.

a pupil apt to learn

an apt scholar

Fulfill your pleasure. Live a thousand years, / I shall not find myself so apt to die.

Where our apt used to be they built a fancy condominium high-rise. Which at a lowly income none of us could ever really quite afford.

The FBI has linked the incident to a North Korean APT it tracks as TraderTraitor, which the agency has been monitoring since 2022 for its attacks on blockchain companies.