alter
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Known for hits such as School's Out, Poison and I'm Eighteen, Cooper, whose real name is Vincent Damon Furnier, spoke about the stark difference between himself and his on-stage alter ego.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“It’s like my Sasha Fierce,” said Magyar, referring to the alter ego of music superstar Beyoncé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
In addition, introducing the labels can be challenging, and some markers may alter the behavior of the very structures scientists want to study.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
AI is surpassing human abilities in pursuits from mathematics to computer programming, while threatening to alter or even eradicate many jobs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
It was me who’d alter everything, putting my passions and career dreams on hold, to fulfill this piece of our dream.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Turning the toes slightly inward or outward alters the forces acting on the knee, potentially reducing stress on the affected cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Social Security recipients can get an additional benefit for dependent children, which alters the calculation about when to draw benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Spanish meteorological research group Climatoc-Lab described it as "a manifestation of how global warming alters the hydrological cycle".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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 doubt that I am overstating the case here: our capacity to understand and manipulate human genomes alters our conception of what it means to be “human.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Yesterday is about a struggling musician who wakes up one day to find an altered world where no-one has heard of The Beatles.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Understand the world with the help of the Muppets: In 2012, Dahlia Lithwick published a piece of cultural analysis that permanently altered how readers viewed their marriages, their workplaces, and the U.S.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
But open-weight models like those released by Chinese companies can be more easily altered and optimized by users for nefarious purposes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Having two altered copies is exceptionally uncommon and can severely disrupt the production of normal fibrillin-1.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
“But I was badly burned and needed surgery. When they operated, they altered my appearance.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Fintech companies are catching on to how Americans are altering their financial habits, and they’ve created new products to try to meet the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The warming phase of a natural climate cycle, El Nino events temporarily elevate global temperatures, altering cloud and wind patterns, and raise the risk of damaging weather.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Fintech founders have caught on to how Americans are altering their financial habits, and they’ve created new products to try to meet the moment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
But he says "more than 30 years worth of behaviors" will need altering to make the railway run solely in the interests of the customer.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Lots of things happen around pageant season, but Mom altering dresses in the middle of our living room is not one of them.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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