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Six example sentences with alter, each labelled with its topic.
Swapping butter for oil will alter the crumb of a cake so much that regular eaters notice at once.
Cooking
One skylight altered the room completely: the same walls that felt like a basement now read as a study.
Architecture
Removing one predator altered the whole valley, until the streams themselves ran along different courses within twenty years.
Environment
A single night of poor sleep can alter how we judge a stranger's face, tilting neutral toward hostile.
Psychology
A quarter-point rate rise altered the math on every mortgage in the country overnight.
Finance
Dropping the tempo by ten beats altered the song so much that the band recorded it again as a ballad.
Music
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