modify
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His letter states that the US Air Force would "use and modify infrastructure at the base" and operate "temporary support flights" from there.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
It is now proposing new powers that would allow it to force telecoms companies to hand over information or modify or disable services in connection with specific threats or incidents.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Democracies do this as a matter of course, and we can, too, even if we modify these lessons, and learn from their shortcomings, for our own particular contexts.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
According to a 2023 post on Anthropic’s website, shareholders can modify the trust and its powers without trustees’ consent if “sufficiently large supermajorities” agree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
They are almost invariably in the best position to learn new information early, modify their behavior, take advantage of the latest treatments, and have the cost covered by insurance.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Evolution often modifies structures that already exist instead of developing completely new systems.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
On Kalshi, Boss places 60 trades a minute and modifies his bids and asks 30 times a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
It modifies a law dating to 2006 that forced foreign investors to form joint ventures with state oil company PDVSA, which insisted on a majority stake.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
CAR T-cell therapy takes the patient's own T-cells, modifies them and then reintroduces them back into the blood stream to help fight the cancer.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie and flanker Tom Curry both took part in modified training today at England's Bagshot base, but are expected to be fit for selection.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Medicare has a two-year lookback period, so your modified adjusted gross income at age 63 matters when it comes to your annual premiums.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Kaufman modified the terms of visitation, barring the child from staying overnight with Berry, when she granted Martinez’s temporary restraining order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
These cells have been genetically modified to contract when exposed to light.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
From the beginnings of literacy in China, it has had only a single writing system, whereas modern Europe uses dozens of modified alphabets.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"Our study, which used more than 9,000 recorded meals, suggests that modifying diet during and after antibiotics, specifically by reducing sweets intake, could help with that."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The bulk of the canal's construction work involved widening, deepening and modifying existing waterways, while a small section had to be excavated, Xinhua said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Russia developed and fielded both weapons within a couple of years by modifying earlier models, combat-testing them and quickly starting mass production, say analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
But either upgrading infrastructure to climate resiliant schools or modifying the academic year would need institutional change with the possibility of a lot of investment.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Here we have an adverb, unproblematically, modifying the verb continue, an ellipsis for continue to be.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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