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

He is concerned the severity modifier could make it harder to launch future cancer drugs.

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

Because a count noun cannot stand on its own—you can’t say Daughter cooked dinner— and a modifier doesn’t help; Beautiful daughter cooked dinner is still bad.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker