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Six example sentences with altered, each labelled with its topic.
Infrared imaging showed an altered background, since the painter had repositioned the window twice before settling on the final view.
Art
The band played an altered version of the anthem, same melody and words but slowed to half its usual tempo.
Music
The clerk noticed an altered date on the deed, the seven inked over what had clearly once been a one.
Law
She served an altered version of her grandmother's stew, the same bones and barley but with far less salt.
Cooking
The judges disqualified the altered photograph, since the sky had been swapped in from a different afternoon.
Photography
The altered strain still grows on the same sugar, though a single new gene now makes it glow faintly.
Science
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