modifier

Example Sentences

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

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

“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

In the case of that in that boy, Miss Thistle- bottom got the function wrong, too: it’s determiner, not modifier.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker