alter
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Might this, plus the challenge of the Green Party's call for a data centre moratorium, alter Burnham's thinking?
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Voluntary standards would primarily raise costs for participating laboratories, government rules could alter competition between companies and jurisdictions, and an enforceable industrywide agreement would have the broadest implications for chip demand and capital spending.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Xinyue Lu, a doctoral student in Computational Biology who co-led the research, described the system as a computational test bed that can be used to explore how changes in genome folding might alter gene activity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Open AI models are, by definition, harder to control, as users can alter their parameters -- potentially for malicious purposes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
“She is now she’s drunk my milk. You can’t alter that.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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Whether the latest upswing in crude prices alters their longer-term outlook remains to be seen, as Brent’s return to triple digits sends government bond yields higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
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
Their research showed that probenecid alters how kidney cells handle urate, a molecule most commonly associated with gout.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
“But surely it alters them very much, living like that?” asked Dandelion.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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Prosecutors alleged she altered other women’s ultrasound images to make them look like hers, fabricated a pregnancy video, bought hormone injections that could affect pregnancy-test results and repeatedly lied under oath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
That our faces can, with new medical and cosmetic technology, be altered only further intensifies this tension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Those altered plant remains occurred throughout the dated deposits, suggesting that people repeatedly carried vegetation into the cave and burned it there across the span of the past 25,000 years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Warren also raised questions about Taylor Farms’ political contributions and lobbying, though her letter did not establish that those connections altered the government’s response.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
“That is your best friend, of whom you speak?” he said in an altered tone.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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By altering these histones, acetyl-CoA can loosen the way DNA is packaged.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Experts estimated that close to 400,000 people remain at risk from a myriad of life altering ailments.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
This includes for things like replacing windows or altering roofs.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
A young man from Modesto heads to USC during the death throes of the studio system and ends up altering the course of Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
I’d watched him sketch those blueprints, watched him perform the calculations, altering this angle or lengthening that beam.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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