alter
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Example Sentences
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Laboratory experiments showed that this altered tau fragment changes how tau proteins cluster together, which may influence how the disease progresses.
From Science Daily
The band altered the name to play on their native Dublin accent, where “thin” is pronounced “tin.”
A surge in crude oil prices can quickly alter interest rate expectations, bolster the U.S. dollar, pressure stocks, and tighten financial conditions.
From Barron's
But it faces significant hurdles, and it is unclear how much its passage would alter the conflict.
From BBC
"The first is that cluster environments were already harsh enough to strip galaxies, and the second is that galaxy clusters may strongly alter galaxy properties earlier than expected," Roberts said.
From Science Daily
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