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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

Total Market index, you had switched to tracking the S&P 500—which didn’t modify its rules to fast track SpaceX into the index—it would have been pretty much a wash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The old men did not even change the adobe walls for modern bricks, or modify the narrow windows.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

In November, after various unsuccessful trials, Olivia was given a novel Car-T treatment – immunotherapy which genetically modifies a patient's T-cells to attack cancer.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025

Many of our “symptoms” of disease actually represent ways in which some damned clever microbe modifies our bodies or our behavior such that we become enlisted to spread microbes.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

We also get pork chops that were genetically modified to remove the alpha-gal molecule, the byproduct of efforts to produce safe pig-based substances for pharmaceuticals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

To explore the mechanism more closely, the scientists studied genetically modified mice.

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

In the case of the properties in the FS Rialto 2021-FL3 loan pool, more than 90% of the mortgages have already been modified or received some kind of forbearance, according to Morningstar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

But Wyatt now said that he, together with Seymour Cohen and A1 Hershey, had evidence that these phages contained a modified type of cytosine called 5-hydroxy-methyl cytosine.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

A few times lately, I’ve caught myself modifying my own work to sound “less like A.I.”

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

By modifying an open model’s weights—which encode knowledge and behavior—anyone can tear down its safety guardrails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Rather than modifying the ink with surfactants or chemically altering the particles, they dispersed nanoscale ultra fine bubbles throughout the liquid.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

"I don't fully know what the gun was, because it was old... and Gramps did some modifying," he wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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