modifier
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Scientists from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute are exploring new therapeutic approaches and have identified a genetic modifier that could point toward a future treatment strategy.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
He is concerned the severity modifier could make it harder to launch future cancer drugs.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 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
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 you like paper or conveniently? is ungrammatical, because conveniently is a modifier, and it’s a modifier that doesn’t work with like; you would never say Would you like conveniently?
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
“We have found a number of so-called modifiers among the European population, and these are targets for new drugs,” said Dr. Cristina Sampaio, CHDI’s chief medical officer.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2023
And O’Connor frequently moves temporal modifiers to the front of the sentence: When the cold weather arrives; When the fish are frozen out; In the winter; When these areas become frozen solid.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing modifier
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Parts of Speech - Middle School
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