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modifier

[mod-uh-fahy-er] / ˈmɒd əˌfaɪ ər /


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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

Recall from chapter 4 that grammatical categories like adjective are not the same thing as grammatical functions like modifier and complement.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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