Example Sentences

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Couldn’t someone on the palace payroll have doctored the picture?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

They have “a huge conflict of interest” regarding paper mills, says Jennifer Byrne of the University of Sydney, who has studied how paper mills have doctored cancer genetics data.

From Science Magazine • May 9, 2023

The warden has temporarily been reassigned; the guards, who may have been working an unacceptable level of overtime and may also have doctored their logs, have been placed on administrative leave.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 18, 2019

Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, disclosed the new total while unveiling a new line of attack aimed at discrediting Cohen, based around vague claims that Cohen may have doctored his recordings.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2018

I have doctored half a dozen during the last three months.

From Flower of the North A Modern Romance by Curwood, James Oliver