Example Sentences

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Officials recently altered a program that charges polluters, which analysts estimate will result in a cut of $200 million for California’s annual wildfire prevention budget.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The shift has altered the way Herring runs her business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Because similar brain structures contribute to social behavior across many species, the findings could also offer clues about human social function and conditions in which social behavior is altered or disrupted.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

Something in it had shifted irreversibly - altered in ways the routines of ordinary life could neither explain nor repair.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

I was wearing a newly altered, totally revamped military-style jacket with epaulets and brass buttons, and I’d embroidered the back, by hand; it read, in a loose script, people are strange.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi