"altered around" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that something has been changed in a particular way. For example, "The company's process for onboarding new employees has been altered around to accommodate the pandemic."
As always, the propagandists were attentive: foreign analysts who track the use of Photoshop on North Korean state images say that official pictures of Kim are often altered around his ears, possibly to mask some sort of blemish.
Upon binding the target molecule, the dielectric environment is altered around the surface of the metal film.
Growth of urban centres world-wide has been so dramatic over the past 100 200 years that many natural habitats have been much altered around large cities.
The baseline case is first investigated to comprehend the behaviour of the microchannel reactor, then microstructural design and operating parameters are methodically altered around the baseline conditions to explore the optimum values.
Both bone formation and bone resorption were altered around colonized screws.
Basement membrane has been shown to be altered around DCIS [ 6, 27], and loss of hemidesmosomes has also been reported in DCIS tissue [ 27].
He'll let a scene alter around him because of the angle of his entrance, the tenor of an audience laugh.
When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.
And there is a growing sense that what happens in Brazil -- the world's No. 2 soybean producer, after the United States -- could tip the balance on genetically altered crops around the world.
Not much has changed other than some slightly altered plastic around the edge and cool new Home screen.
In geothermal reservoirs, however, the percolation by geothermal brine promotes the formation of hydrothermally altered zones around fluid pathways.
