modify
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What this means is that well-versed techies can now download and modify this AI without approval from Meta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which held the FCC is required by federal law to repeal or modify regulations that are no longer in the public interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
"In a private company, you can take risks more quickly," said Trotsenko, explaining how small companies were incentivised to modify and adapt at speed to win contracts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
He suggests of loudcasting that "in two years' time we're not going to worry about it", and that those ruffled by it will be more tolerant while offenders modify their behaviour somewhat.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
“To work on them and modify them and all that. Don’t you think?”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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On Kalshi, Boss places 60 trades a minute and modifies his bids and asks 30 times a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Ferreira modifies these cells with a CAR that recognizes a specific surface protein placed on the beta cells.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026
Developed in partnership with Gilead Sciences, the treatment is a so-called CAR-T therapy that extracts a patient’s T-cells and modifies them to target cancer cells.
From Barron's ● Dec. 9, 2025
NIH funding supported, among others, the development of CAR T cell therapy, which genetically modifies a patients’ own T-cells to fight cancer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
Many of our “symptoms” of disease actually represent ways in which some damned clever microbe modifies our bodies or our behavior such that we become enlisted to spread microbes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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At the same time, research increasingly suggests that many risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia can be modified.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
LA28 said in a statement it is focused on building upon UCLA’s existing accessibility foundation while exploring additional modifications and services to support Paralympic athletes and team officials, such as temporary ramps and modified restrooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Their planned changes would save £22bn in reforms to the disability programme alone, he added, seeing nearly three million claimants have their payments withdrawn or modified.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Your eligibility is based on your household modified adjusted gross income, not just your gross income or the amount of money you have in the bank.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the war had modified even his standards; all forms of physical exercise had become conventional for the Duration.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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A few times lately, I’ve caught myself modifying my own work to sound “less like A.I.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
"I don't fully know what the gun was, because it was old... and Gramps did some modifying," he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The U.S. has been constantly modifying the B-52 to extend its life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Saronic built its first prototype in under six months by modifying an $800 Amazon raft with $30,000 worth of cameras, sensors and batteries, Mavrookas said in the podcast interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
His hypnotic drum beats may have sounded repetitive but were in fact comprised of endlessly modifying patterns.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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