modifier

Example Sentences

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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

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

Targeting these modifier genes using gene-silencing techniques developed by Nobel laureate Craig Mello and other researchers at UMass Chan could offer potential treatments.

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

Laurie had to have a quart of fresh milk every day and the milk modifier was expensive.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith