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as in to modify
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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Recent Examples of alter
But a much less obvious scene was altered on third-party streaming services in India, while the threesome involving two brothers remained intact.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
By slightly altering the manufacturing process for lithium-ion EV batteries, their technique can enable rapid charging at awfully low temperatures – up to five times as fast – without reducing their energy density.
—New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2025
Nothing will alter The Electric State’s disorienting, tone-deaf incompetence.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
This is often called DNS poisoning or spoofing in the context of online attacks, and the outcome is the same if it's being done under legal authority: a DNS record is altered to prevent someone typing a domain name from being routed to the correct IP address.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
By slightly altering the manufacturing process for lithium-ion EV batteries, their technique can enable rapid charging at awfully low temperatures – up to five times as fast – without reducing their energy density.
—New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2025
Nothing will alter The Electric State’s disorienting, tone-deaf incompetence.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
This is often called DNS poisoning or spoofing in the context of online attacks, and the outcome is the same if it's being done under legal authority: a DNS record is altered to prevent someone typing a domain name from being routed to the correct IP address.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alter
Verb
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Each Boost plan can be modified with Add-Ons for an additional charge.—
Iyaz Akhtar,
PC Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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The developers talked to drone operators about their combat experience with commercial Chinese thermal imaging cameras and modified their design accordingly.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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These setbacks, caused by systemic problems that can be fixed, ripple through families and neighborhoods and create instability and unsafe conditions for all of us.—
Arne Duncan,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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The best hair gloss treatments can fix that in no time, reinvigorating your style with undeniable shine.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
28 Mar. 2025
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Pay attention to the market of your target industry and see how specific companies change in the future.—
Kate Wieczorek,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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After more than a decade Jérôme Lambert has returned to the helm of Jaeger-LeCoultre, and in some ways nothing much has changed.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Postal Service was remodeled under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, moving from a cabinet department to an independent agency under the executive branch with a Board of Governors.—
Claire Grant,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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Outback also will slow its new restaurant openings and direct its investments to remodeling current locations.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Alter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alter. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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