Example Sentences

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The company was using traditional technology, and employees were modifying some of those third-party devices.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021

Two additional labs were using VSV for coronavirus vaccines, and nearly 50 others were modifying other viruses — adenovirus, measles, flu — for their Trojan horses.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2020

Before the government launched its program, lenders were modifying loans in ways that sometimes raised a borrower's mortgage payment, she said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2010

There's no use calling it by a softer name; but I submit that there were modifying circumstances which may appeal to you.

From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis