modification
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Knowledge flows easily between them thanks to a culture of publishing research and the Chinese developers’ preference for open-source technologies that are largely free for download and modification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"So fewer warnings, more actions penalised, and if there's any reduction in offences being penalised it should be a result of a modification of player behaviour rather than us no longer applying it."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
To tackle the severe droughts and water shortages that plague the country, Kazakhstan has resorted to cloud seeding, a weather modification method previously unseen in Central Asia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Law enforcement officials also point out that any type of modification to e-bikes might not just be dangerous, but can also transform the e-bike into a motorcycle or moped under California law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Papin’s pump is often, and with good reason, described as a modification of Savery’s, though Papin claimed he had devised it independently.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The findings instead point toward an epigenetic process involving histone modifications.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The device features a privacy recording light to notify wearers when it’s recording, but modifications available all over the internet allow users to sidestep it.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
The group also asked the Justice Department whether modifications to the settlement had the support of Trump, his two sons and their businesses, who brought the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Qatari jet has only one set of internal air stairs that was added during modifications by L3Harris Technologies, the contractor tapped by the Air Force to add military equipment to the plane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
To understand them, we must see of what they are made, and how, although linked with the basic chemistry of all life, they lend themselves to the modifications which make them agents of death.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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