modifying
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What is it that we need to do in terms of modifying the car, setting it up in a different way for him to go fast?
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
"Our study, which used more than 9,000 recorded meals, suggests that modifying diet during and after antibiotics, specifically by reducing sweets intake, could help with that."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Barkley, who lives with his fiancée, Anna Congdon, and their three young children in a Philadelphia suburb, talked about modifying his workouts, taking inspiration from Kobe Bryant and his animal-themed meditation technique.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The bulk of the canal's construction work involved widening, deepening and modifying existing waterways, while a small section had to be excavated, Xinhua said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Here we have an adverb, unproblematically, modifying the verb continue, an ellipsis for continue to be.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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