modality

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the lone dissenter, frames Colorado’s law as prohibiting merely “a dangerous therapy modality that, incidentally, involves provider speech.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The modality put D-Wave on the map for being markedly different than that of peers, but it’s best suited for optimization tasks.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

On Friday, he told journalists: "The Donbas issue is key. It will be discussed as will be the modality of how the three sides see it."

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Reiki for humans is a Japanese energy-healing modality that, practitioners say, aids relaxation, pain relief and overall health by realigning the body’s energy centers, or “chakras.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025

The latter belongs to the principles of modality, which to the determination of causality adds the conception of necessity, which is itself, however, subject to a rule of the understanding.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow