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Mackay speaks fast and persuasively, like a sincere used-car salesman who has doctored the mileage and seems constantly astonished by the ease of his own success.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2013

One day a colleague confronts Jonas about a report he has doctored, describing the plight of a family from Liberia.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2011

"Sometimes the best you can do is to convince them to close," adds Joseph Stein, who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and has doctored such plays as Irene and Raisin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Governor Long has doctored the laws governing the charitable and eleemosynary institutions of the State . . . the road laws . . . the educational laws.

From Time Magazine Archive

If a surgeon has cured the limb of a patrician, or has doctored a diseased bowel, the patient shall pay five shekels of silver to the surgeon.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)