modify

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According to Blumenthal, roughly 80% to 90% of cardiovascular disease is linked, at least in part, to factors people can modify, making lifestyle changes a critical first step.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

Misha Laskin is a Russian-Israeli researcher who left Google to start Reflection, which is trying to build open-source AI models whose underlying code is freely available for anyone to use and modify.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

As Barron’s has written, while China’s best AI generally remains several months behind the leading U.S. models, Chinese developers have gained a substantial foothold in the market by offering open-source models that users can modify.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

That means it can modify one region of a molecule while leaving other functional groups untouched.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Instead, they attempted to modify the theory by making the gravitational force repulsive at very large distances.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking