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alter

[awl-ter] / ˈɔl tər /




Usage

What is another way to say alter? To alter is to make some partial change, as in appearance, while still preserving the identity: to alter a dress, as by raising the hem (to change a dress would mean to put on a different one). To change is to make a material difference so that something is distinctly different from what it was: to change one's opinion. 

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The new BLS estimate doesn’t alter the picture of what economists call a “low-hire, low-fire” labor market.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

Ironically, though, attacking alter egos narrowly could require more probing than enabled by the proposal now apparently under consideration.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

To understand how these experiences can physically alter the developing brain, the researchers focused on the ventral tegmental area.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

Director and founder Edward Surman said: "Social media is a place where brands can alter their own story - where it's not moved around by the press."

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Mom says, “Money doesn’t alter human rights, common equality.”

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Because Donaldjohanson's shape is uneven, those tiny forces do not cancel out completely and instead create a twisting effect that gradually alters the asteroid's rotation.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

I interviewed Christo in 2011, and he was eloquent about how his and his wife’s work alters perceptions of nature, and about the deliberately transient character of the art itself.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2026

Moreover, the repeal of this rule substantially alters settlement dynamics.

From MarketWatch Jun. 17, 2026

Much will come out in the exchanges between the accidental roommates that alters our perceptions of both, as well as our view of those offstage personages, living and dead.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

How writing or just thinking your name alters my mood.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

The analysis revealed altered activity in several genes whose genetic variants have previously been associated with major depression.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Using an array of recently developed techniques, the team measured the activity of every gene within individual cells and examined whether cellular proteins had been altered.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

When users record something using a device with ProofMode, it can attach information which helps verify elements such as when it was recorded and whether the file has been altered since.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

“The fact that exercises already in progress can be altered by a single order from the U.S. President is something we must not take lightly,” a party spokesman said on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

“That is your best friend, of whom you speak?” he said in an altered tone.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Epigenetic mechanisms can adjust how strongly genes are turned on or off without altering the underlying DNA sequence.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

He said what happened with Afropunk is “a tale as old as time” and Morgan being outside of the movement led to “moneyed interests” altering what Spooner had created.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

His decision was the clearest example of the seismic shift that is permanently altering the shape of football careers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Achieving that, Tiwari says, requires redesigning streets by narrowing traffic lanes, altering road surfaces and introducing other traffic-calming measures.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

As Muller thought about the future of eugenics and the possibility of altering human genomes, he wondered whether Galton and his collaborators had made a fundamental conceptual error.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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