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as in modified
to make different in some way
can't you alter your plans just slightly so we can leave 10 minutes earlier?
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as in fixed
to remove the sex organs of
contends that cats and dogs that have been altered make better pets
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Recent Examples of altered
Pia Singh, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
Since the pair began dating last year, Swift has frequently given nods to the Chiefs' player on tour in altered lyrics to her songs and doing the archer pose, with Kelce typically being in the audience at her shows.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2024
These foods are in their natural state or are barely altered.
—Korin Miller, Health, 20 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
As a result, strategists have updated their outlooks throughout 2024 to reflect the altered conditions.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
Since the pair began dating last year, Swift has frequently given nods to the Chiefs' player on tour in altered lyrics to her songs and doing the archer pose, with Kelce typically being in the audience at her shows.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
Verb
While the approach of this season’s All-Star Game has been altered to a tournament format, the basics for balloting have not changed from previous seasons.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2024
These foods are in their natural state or are barely altered.
—Korin Miller, Health, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for altered
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Comprising 42 pairs of chromosomes instead of the original 14, the DNA of modern wheat has been artificially modified.Marie Bladt, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2024
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His duties and responsibilities will be modified, according to the resolution — a prospect Martinez challenged after the vote.Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Dec. 2024
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What to do when pipes burst Lee Company has fixed hundreds of pipes this week as temperatures have consistently remained below freezing across Middle Tennessee.Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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This broken system needs to be fixed.CBS News, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2024
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Linebacker Josey Jewell was initially given credit for the sack before it was changed to Wonnum, his fourth in six games.Joseph Person, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Fans, once again, get short-changed by cricket's rudderless leadership and geo-politics.Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The vast backdrop is beautiful but only moderately less foreboding than the oppressively sterile office where most of Season 1 takes place.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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States committed, on average, about 2% for syringe service programs, through which people can get sterile needles.Aneri Pattani, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
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This is a 4-bed, 3-bath, 2,600-square foot, contemporary-style home that was built in 1973 and remodeled in 2019 in Pewee Valley.Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2024
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These rooms were fully remodeled in 2024, offering guests a modern yet mountain chic stay.Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2024
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Sunny wants to clean up, but the prospect of this bot supposedly programmed by her dead husband touching their dead boy’s things is evidently the shock Suzie needed to shake her from impotent despair to useful rage.Chris Klimek, Vulture, 10 July 2024
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Thanks to the constraints imposed by the Zeitgeist, the Fed was omnipotent in principle but impotent in practice.Sebastian Mallaby, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2021
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The delay proved to be a blessing in disguise as the pandemic soon sent the world into lockdown giving time for the Obi-Wan Kenobi show to be reworked.Caroline Reid, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Marin and actor-comedian Tommy Chong reworked many of their comedy routines to please audiences with goofy, and at times, stupid humor — creating a counterculture film classic watched to this day.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Altered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altered. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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