modifier

Example Sentences

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The main thrust of these accounts has been that suspensions do not work as behavior modifiers.

From Seattle Times

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

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

In crafting the algorithm that powers kidney transplant priorities, the transplant system applied a 16 percent to 18 percent “modifier” to balance out that supposed advantage for Blacks.

From Washington Post

We also discovered modifier genes that encode for some proteins that help repair damaged DNA.

From Salon