modify
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Unlike closed, proprietary American systems from OpenAI or Anthropic, Kimi K3's open nature allows global users to modify the system for advanced reasoning and complex software development.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Open-source" or "open-weight" models work differently: the developers release the model's core files for anyone to download, modify and run on their own computers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
“It was too late to modify it by the time the foundation was poured, and we had to live with it,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
In contrast, the researchers were able to repeatedly lift, rotate, and restack the material, allowing them to continuously modify its properties.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
“To work on them and modify them and all that. Don’t you think?”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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On Kalshi, Boss places 60 trades a minute and modifies his bids and asks 30 times a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Developed in partnership with Gilead Sciences, the treatment is a so-called CAR-T therapy that extracts a patient’s T-cells and modifies them to target cancer cells.
From Barron's ● Dec. 9, 2025
CAR T-cell therapy takes the patient's own T-cells, modifies them and then reintroduces them back into the blood stream to help fight the cancer.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
NIH funding supported, among others, the development of CAR T cell therapy, which genetically modifies a patients’ own T-cells to fight cancer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
Many of our “symptoms” of disease actually represent ways in which some damned clever microbe modifies our bodies or our behavior such that we become enlisted to spread microbes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The internal slogan of Facebook used to be “move fast and break things,” before it was modified to “move fast with stable infrastructure.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
STV and regulator Ofcom agreed a modified scheme but this did little to appease the Scottish government, unions, and critics including local business groups.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But the terms of those contracts could be modified given the change in ownership, the filing states.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
But most banks are expected to remain open on Friday, although some locations may operate with modified schedules.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
The resonant nasal tones of his voice became modified.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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"I don't fully know what the gun was, because it was old... and Gramps did some modifying," he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
This approach is significantly more efficient and cost-effective than ex vivo therapy, which requires harvesting a patient’s cells, modifying them in a lab, and re-infusing them.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
The U.S. has been constantly modifying the B-52 to extend its life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Saronic built its first prototype in under six months by modifying an $800 Amazon raft with $30,000 worth of cameras, sensors and batteries, Mavrookas said in the podcast interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Kast had records and clearly remembered modifying Walter's truck in May 1987, over six months after the day when Hooks and Hightower claimed they'd seen a low-rider truck at the cleaners.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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