modify
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“We had to modify the latter third of practice because these guys were just giving great effort and physicality, so we cut a couple things,” Redick said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Anthropic insists it cannot modify its models once delivered to the military.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
In Maine, Navatek was studying ways to modify small boats to reduce the “slamming” impact felt by passengers at high speeds.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
It will help us explain why in the Ramesside period, officials such as Paser chose to reuse, modify or build tombs adjacent to the monuments of the preceding 18th-dynasty elites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
As a child I was taught, for example, that the words soap in soap flakes and that in that boy were adjectives, because they modify nouns.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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T cell receptor therapy, known as TCR therapy, is a form of cancer treatment that genetically modifies immune cells called T cells so they can recognize and attack cancer with high precision.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 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
Developed in partnership with Gilead Sciences, the treatment is a so-called CAR-T therapy that extracts a patient’s T-cells and modifies them to target cancer cells.
From Barron's ● Dec. 9, 2025
County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic modifies the brothers’ original sentence to 50 years to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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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The judge also modified the actor’s visitation time, limiting her hours with her son to Mondays, Tuesdays and weekends between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The researchers tested and modified an existing analytical procedure, then applied the improved version to 32 different soil types from across the United Kingdom.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Marines implanted an unwitting woman with a genetically modified embryo in order to produce one of its new class of supersoldiers.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The company said it had modified the vehicle’s hardware to make its engines more reliable.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
So just a few of the NS-2 model, the Nestors, that is, were prepared with a modified First Law.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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“It took us a month to figure it out, repurposing and modifying equipment we had,” said Le.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The goal will be to determine whether modifying dopamine activity can improve memory, motivation, and fatigue.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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
A few times lately, I’ve caught myself modifying my own work to sound “less like A.I.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Among the herbicides are some that are classified as “mutagens,” or agents capable of modifying the genes, the materials of heredity.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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