modification

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It stops law enforcement agents, including federal agents, from “providing unauthorized access, disruption, modification, or seizure of voter rolls, voter lists, or certified voting technology,” without a court order.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

When the scientists blocked this specific chemical modification in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, levels of neuroinflammation dropped.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

His modification of a Land Rover Discovery for calf-feeding rounds - an off-road milk float - earned him third place in the Farmers Weekly inventions competition in 2020.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

“A modification of the judicial retirement age could be added to the next budget, which is due by June 30, and would come into effect upon passage,” he said.

From Slate • May 11, 2026

So though it looks like a polar opposite of the speech that went before it—Everett verbose and ornate where Lincoln was clipped; Everett concrete where Lincoln was abstract—it is a modification rather than a rebuke.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith