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If you won $100 million — a life-changing sum — $5 million or $10 million could change her life and would not alter yours in any meaningful way as a newly minted multimillionaire.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
The 14th Amendment was intended to constitutionalize, not alter, the Civil Rights Act.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
"The introduction of soft materials that can expand, contract, and alter their shape opens up an entirely new toolbox in the world of optics to manipulate how things look."
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
A nonprofit exists to preserve them, but tour guide Teri Rommelmann said preservation efforts aren’t meant to alter the course of nature and time, but rather to save the work from sinking into the sand.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
