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Instead, London is pursuing a "debt reset" plan for the poorest Commonwealth countries, led by former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown and which could alter interest rates on repayments.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

If the truce brought a rare moment of relief to Oleshky, it has done little to alter the wider trajectory of a war that grinds on for now.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

However, it provides an important new clue, suggesting that the radiation that helped lift the universe's ancient fog may have escaped galaxies before powerful stellar explosions began to alter their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Note to seniors: The recent changes to charitable deductions don’t alter qualified charitable distributions, or QCDs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Turning the toes slightly inward or outward alters the forces acting on the knee, potentially reducing stress on the affected cartilage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Social Security recipients can get an additional benefit for dependent children, which alters the calculation about when to draw benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Spanish meteorological research group Climatoc-Lab described it as "a manifestation of how global warming alters the hydrological cycle".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

In her version, Bernhard alters the lyrics to pay tribute to Sylvester, whose untimely death left an immense legacy.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

“But surely it alters them very much, living like that?” asked Dandelion.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The water reaches Antarctica's coastline through ocean currents that have been altered by climate change, creating conditions that accelerate melting beneath the glacier.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Authorities determined that Owens altered an ultrasound image, fabricated a pregnancy video and lied under oath claiming she was pregnant, according to a statement from prosecutors at the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

The altered cells also accumulated substantially fewer lipid droplets, the structures used to store fat.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The company has been panned by some academics and scientists, who doubt Colossal’s claims of scientific breakthroughs and warn that introducing heavily genetically altered creatures can cause dangerous ecological disruption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But Lysenko convinced himself and his Soviet bosses that he had “retrained” the crops through exposure and conditioning alone and thereby altered their inherent characteristics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In the nine days since riots erupted in cities across France, thousands of merchants have also boarded up their storefronts, radically altering the Paris streetscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Our reporters visually track how carriers are altering the world’s busiest flight paths to navigate around conflicts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The warming phase of a natural climate cycle, El Nino events temporarily elevate global temperatures, altering cloud and wind patterns, and raise the risk of damaging weather.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Fintech founders have caught on to how Americans are altering their financial habits, and they’ve created new products to try to meet the moment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

By altering the relative proportions of earth and fire, say, you would be able, they thought, to change copper into gold.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan