modifier
Example Sentences
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Engineered bacteria can produce a plastic modifier that makes renewably sourced plastic more processable, more fracture resistant and highly biodegradable even in sea water.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2024
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
We also discovered modifier genes that encode for some proteins that help repair damaged DNA.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
