modifying

While immigration enforcement is unlikely to change, the administration signaled an openness to modifying some tactics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Rather than extracting immune cells from a patient and modifying them in a laboratory, the researchers use tiny particles made of fatty molecules to deliver genetic instructions directly to NK cells.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

What is it that we need to do in terms of modifying the car, setting it up in a different way for him to go fast?

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

A startup now wants dogs to have a similar advantage, genetically modifying man’s best friend to make them run faster, have a keener sense of smell and avoid common genetic conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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