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Six example sentences with altering, each labelled with its topic.
Every altering of a prescription is logged by the pharmacist, with the old dose and the new one side by side.
Medicine
Decades of dam building caused an altering of the river's course that left the old fishing villages a mile from water.
Environment
The altering of a single clause in the lease took two months of drafts and three signatures from each side.
Law
The altering of the family recipe caused an argument, since half the table missed the extra cinnamon.
Cooking
The altering of the starting lineup at halftime caught the visitors off guard for the whole third quarter.
Basketball
Every altering of the source file is stamped with the author's name and the exact time it was saved.
Technology
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