altering
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The former Board of Public Works member suggested that altering the five-member panel should have been its own item, saying, “The longer the paragraphs are, the fewer words the public will read.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Rather than simply illuminating a specimen, the laser interacts directly with the microscope's electron beam, altering its phase to increase image contrast.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The companies leading the race to build artificial superintelligence describe the technology as a force that could reshape entire economies, create vast fortunes and dominate future warfare, potentially altering the geopolitical power balance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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
As Muller thought about the future of eugenics and the possibility of altering human genomes, he wondered whether Galton and his collaborators had made a fundamental conceptual error.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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