modifier
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But Helen Knight, NICE’s director of medicines evaluation, argues that the severity modifier is working.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024
Engineered bacteria can produce a plastic modifier that makes renewably sourced plastic more processable, more fracture resistant and highly biodegradable even in sea water.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
Lynch’s dystopian novel, which won the Booker Prize on Sunday, is at once so particularly Irish yet so universally familiar that it deserves the overused modifier “Kafkaesque.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
We also discovered modifier genes that encode for some proteins that help repair damaged DNA.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023
In this sentence we have the phrase In Sophocles’play as a modifier of the clause Oedipus married his mother.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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“Sales of our proteins and modifiers have increased 300 to 400%. They’ll substitute out three ounces of chicken and get a full chicken breast, which is eight ounces of chicken.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
At the same time, management described customization as a $1 billion-a-year business, built on high-margin modifiers such as cold foam, milk alternatives, and protein add-ins that allow customers to personalize nearly every beverage.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Researchers note that further mechanistic studies will be needed to understand why the same genetic modifiers can have opposite effects on different repeats.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2026
“We’re at the early stages with cold beverages in the modifiers and customization, and that gives us a competitive advantage,” Mr. Schultz said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Another tradeoff between brevity and clarity may be seen in the placement of modifiers.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Parts of Speech - Middle School
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