modifier

Engineered bacteria can produce a plastic modifier that makes renewably sourced plastic more processable, more fracture resistant and highly biodegradable even in sea water.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024

“Recycled is a positive modifier in most contexts but that isn’t necessarily the case when it comes to gold or silver,” she said.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

Lynch’s dystopian novel, which won the Booker Prize on Sunday, is at once so particularly Irish yet so universally familiar that it deserves the overused modifier “Kafkaesque.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

My team also uses fruit flies to identify modifier genes and then test how they influence disease in neurons from patients with FTD or ALS.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

Would you like paper or conveniently? is ungrammatical, because conveniently is a modifier, and it’s a modifier that doesn’t work with like; you would never say Would you like conveniently?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

He seldom refers to coal without the modifiers “clean” and “beautiful.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

At the same time, management described customization as a $1 billion-a-year business, built on high-margin modifiers such as cold foam, milk alternatives, and protein add-ins that allow customers to personalize nearly every beverage.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

The new findings lay the foundation for a comprehensive investigation of the role of METTL16 in health and disease and are a step closer towards the development of therapeutic agents targeting such RNA modifiers.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

In Latin America, she added, “we might find other genes that influence how the disease progresses. These modifiers could become targets.”

From New York Times ● May 23, 2023

Brittney is the kind of person for whom active verbs and modifiers were invented.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe