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

“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

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

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2023

In this sentence we have the phrase In Sophocles’play as a modifier of the clause Oedipus married his mother.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker