modifier

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Sometimes it is the only resting place, particularly when the modifier is a negation or quantifier such as not of more than.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker