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alter

[awl-ter] / ˈɔl tər /




Usage

What is another way to say alter? 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). To change is to make a material difference so that something is distinctly different from what it was: to change one's opinion. 

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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

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

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

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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