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change

[cheynj] / tΚƒeΙͺndΚ’ /


NOUN
act or fact of making different or becoming different
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What is another way to say change? To change is to make a material difference so that something is distinctly different from what it was: to change one's opinion. 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).

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That led to a change in how Ofsted assessed schools, bringing in report cards designed to grade schools on several areas, rather than focusing on one overall grade for the whole school.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The goal isn’t to freeze the status quo, but to change the adversary’s calculus on when and whether to move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

That behavioral change provided evidence that cats can perceive differences among individual BFA compositions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

And it was a big change in renter protections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

But if he’d perceived Clare’s desperation, if on some deep, subconscious level he’d felt the truth—that this mushroom was a living thing, precious to another soul—it did not change the boy’s intent.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Turnover among executives and ownership gave him repeated openings to make wholesale changes, a shift that coincided with California’s drought crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

In June, Cuba approved a wide-ranging package of economic changes, which the U.S. dismissed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Law students educated in this way will be grounded in ethical and principled reasoning and adept at navigating an era when AI tools stand to shape changes in the practice of their profession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

"There's always going to be certain reactions when you're making changes," said Carrick.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Each panda has its own scent—and that varies by gender and changes with age.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

“Nothing has changed since he filed the case,” said Annie Leonard, co-founder of the non-profit Committee for the First Amendment, which advocates for free expression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

"I have so much respect for what Ben Stokes and Brendon did for this English side. They changed the landscape of cricket and that's a really powerful thing."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

They controlled the other lipid components in the urine samples and changed only the donor-derived BFA-containing fraction.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

She passed the spaghetti recipe to my mother early in my parents’ marriage, and Mom changed almost nothing.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

The screen changed to the next student, and I relaxed a little in my seat.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Maybe what that means is that human creativity is changing, and that it’s much less dependent on idea generation, and much more dependent on idea selection and elaboration as the unique human skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

WSJ: Say you’re up for changing, but you’ve got a manager who seems stuck in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

"I do think things are changing, people are becoming more 'let's stand up against this and do something'," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Phobos' present-day gravity field, shape, density, spectral properties, and changing orbit must all be reconciled within a single geophysical model.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

I opened my mouth to respond, but assorted emotions—anger, loneliness, jealousy, heartache—kept changing what I wanted to say.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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