modifier
Example Sentences
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Scientists from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute are exploring new therapeutic approaches and have identified a genetic modifier that could point toward a future treatment strategy.
From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025
It's what earns his narcissism the modifier "malignant."
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025
But Helen Knight, NICE’s director of medicines evaluation, argues that the severity modifier is working.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 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
More generally, a modifier can dangle when its implied subject is the writer and the reader, as in To summarize and In order to start the motor in the examples above.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing modifier
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The AP English Exam: Writing, Grammar, and Word Choice
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Parts of Speech - Middle School
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