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The legal battle in Kansas does not address whether changes can be made to birth certificates, which the state has been modifying since settling a lawsuit in 2019.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

The hospital has been modifying other units to make room for additional ICU patients.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2021

The elder Yu has been modifying existing drugs, such as ibuprofen, to enable them to be delivered transdermally at his pharmaceutical company near Shanghai and testing the treatments in U.S. clinical trials.   

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 22, 2015