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"alter history" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to change or modify the course of events in the past. It can also be used metaphorically to refer to changing the perception or understanding of past events. Here is an example sentence: "The discovery of new evidence could potentially alter history and challenge our current understanding of the ancient civilization."
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"You can't alter history," one told him.
It is precisely their sacrifice that will alter history.
John McCain has a rare opportunity to alter history.
You cannot alter history to right past wrongs, even if it is just boxing history.
Ira: who rushes to radically alter history, society, the class system.
"You cannot give people the freedom, the right to alter history.
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Nevertheless the photographer has altered history.
But the war with Ukraine has altered history.
Instead he wanders the centuries, altering history in subtle ways that will thwart his killer.
We'll have no way of knowing for sure, but this feels like a political impersonation that actually altered history.
By exercising such overarching editorial rights, large corporations that ought to bring us closer together as human beings through transparency, end up altering history, and altering the truth.
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