alter

Example Sentences

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With less interest money flowing from those unpaid balances, banks would need to dramatically alter their business models and customer offerings.

From MarketWatch

If it were to be enacted, even a temporary cap could alter lender behavior, since card issuers might worry about policy reversals and regulatory volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal

The content also portrays an unrealistic idea of beauty via digitally altered images that can lead to low self-esteem in girls, which creates fertile ground for depression or eating disorders, it added.

From Barron's

Changes to consumers’ expectations of future inflation can drastically alter economic conditions now.

From MarketWatch

The author of the report, Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook, declined to endorse the final version because of changes that altered his findings and made the report “highly unprofessional and inconsistent with our established standards.”

From Los Angeles Times