modify
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California’s current public health monitoring protocol includes daily temperature checks, assessment for any symptoms consistent with hantavirus, and direction to modify activities as necessary.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
The Air Force says that $400 million to modify the plane went to security measures, not aesthetics.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Coffee may modify what microbes do collectively, and what metabolites they use.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
The court will re-examine the case, typically with a panel of three arbitrators who go over the evidence and can either uphold, overturn, or modify the ban given out by the FA.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
But the government was sufficiently rattled by our protest to modify the act, and at one point Verwoerd was compelled to declare that education should be the same for all.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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