modifier

These genes are known as epigenetic modifier genes because they influence gene activity by adding chemical groups to DNA and altering its structure.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026

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

My team also uses fruit flies to identify modifier genes and then test how they influence disease in neurons from patients with FTD or ALS.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

Would a modifier like “death-defying” mean less when everyone in the tent — performers, spectators — had lived through a global pandemic?

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

More generally, a modifier can dangle when its implied subject is the writer and the reader, as in To summarize and In order to start the motor in the examples above.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“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

However, these traditional rheological modifiers have raised environmental concerns regarding sourcing and sustainability.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

The main thrust of these accounts has been that suspensions do not work as behavior modifiers.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

Other examples of modifiers include the underlined words in the phrases walks on four legs, swollen feet, met him on the road to Thebes, and the shepherd whom Oedipus had sent for.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker