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
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
Would a modifier like “death-defying” mean less when everyone in the tent — performers, spectators — had lived through a global pandemic?
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2022
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
Vocabulary lists containing modifier
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The AP English Exam: Writing, Grammar, and Word Choice
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Parts of Speech - Middle School
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