modifier
Example Sentences
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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
“Recycled is a positive modifier in most contexts but that isn’t necessarily the case when it comes to gold or silver,” she said.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 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
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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