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alteration, change, difference, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, review, revise, revision, reworking, variation
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At the individual level, FaceApp is the most famous and notorious deepfake face-modification app to date. — Colum Murphy And Zheping Huang / Bloomberg, Time, "Social Media Users Entranced, Concerned by Chinese Face-Swapping Deepfake App," 4 Sep. 2019 The public transportation entity will also buy battery chargers/dispensers and complete facility modifications to support the technology. — USA TODAY, "Cat burglar, prison bats, USS Arizona Memorial: News from around our 50 states," 4 Sep. 2019 At the individual level, FaceApp is the most famous and notorious deepfake face-modification app to date. — Colum Murphy, Los Angeles Times, "China’s red-hot face-swapping app provokes privacy concern," 2 Sep. 2019 The Fire Department is in the process of obtaining permits to add fuel modification zones, Brown said. — Daily Pilot, "Laguna Beach calls on a third herd of goats to eat up dry brush," 28 Aug. 2019 Finally, Dansby went to a body modification shop to have a professional piercer insert the implant into her arm through a hollow needle. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, "Why This Software Engineer Implanted a Tesla Valet Key Into Her Arm," 14 Aug. 2019 Genetic-engineering: Neom would host a genetic-modification project of some sorts. — James Vincent, The Verge, "Robot cage fights and flying taxis: leaked documents reveal Saudi Arabia’s plans for its next megacity," 26 July 2019 The ocean-facing porch was Scheerer’s first modification. — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, "A Top Designer Outfitted This Maine Cottage in Just Days," 28 June 2019 Norris Sweidan demonstrates one of the modification kits that allow shooters to quickly replace magazines even with the bullet-button ban. — Zusha Elinson And Cameron Mcwhirter, WSJ, "Gun Makers Adjust Rifles to Skirt Bans," 21 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'modification.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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