Example Sentences

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In an effort to save money, several consumers are modifying their spending habits.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025

"Next, we are modifying the design of our reactor to recover a larger amount of product efficiently," added Wang.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

But this time researchers are modifying salad greens—and they’re armed with the science of gene editing.

From Scientific American • May 10, 2023

Imagery can also detect crewmen modifying a missile site—but not how they are modifying the missile.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2023

Through the teachings of home economics the farmer's home is being transformed, while the applications of science made in these schools are modifying almost every phase of agricultural life and rural living.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson