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Recent Examples of modification Florida's House passed a bill to ban weather modification and geoengineering on Wednesday. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025 McClain and Ayers built and mounted the upper triangle of the mast canister modification kit, as well as the right struts, but then were instructed to clean up their workstations and move on to the next, higher priority task. Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 1 May 2025 That said, new modifications are retroactive, so automakers could receive compensation for tariffs paid in April of 2025. Charles Singh, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025 The modification to the tariffs was reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. Ana Swanson, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for modification
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Noun
  • Still, All Stars has gone through some shifts over the years, implementing varying structural alterations to keep its viewers — and nowadays, its queens — coming back for more.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
  • In subsequent years, the facility moved around to various spaces and experienced alterations but remained a compact operation when Torri arrived in 1989 as a part-time employee, two years before being named its director.
    Michael Williams, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • As part of the daytime changes, Ana Cabrera‘s 10 a.m.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 May 2025
  • Illinois places implementing local grocery taxes List subject to change.
    Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • Another main difference is that white sharks have large gill slits, while basking sharks have extra large gill slits.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
  • As long as the recipient is informed or entertained or both, what’s the difference how it was produced?
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025

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“Modification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modification. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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