modulate
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“To watch you be a bad actor was so hilarious and then you would you would modulate it and change it,” Giamatti continues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
“So they are able to modulate their demand.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"They help modulate and regulate many gene and signaling pathways in the brain."
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
"Our research presents a clear case that specific brain pathways can be directly targeted to modulate sensory pain," said Ball.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026
They’d arrived at an uneasy truce—Mamma didn’t have to modulate her tone if Dimple didn’t have to drop everything and rush to her aid for saffron emergencies.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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"GAE is a whole new treatment regimen that targets abnormal hypervascularity around the joint and, in turn, modulates the pathological neurovascular environment," Dr. Fleckenstein said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Incyte said the acquisition includes Vega’s lead candidate VGA039, which modulates Protein S to improve hemostasis, potentially improving the body’s ability to control bleeding in numerous bleeding disorders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Oppenheimer modulates the lighting during the scenes from cool to warm and back again, underlining the vacillating feelings they can’t acknowledge outright.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
“And if ‘Killers’ miscalibrates its balance of perspectives, it also discovers, in the luminous recesses of Gladstone’s performance, a quality of contemplation that beautifully suffuses and modulates Scorsese’s faster, more frenetic rhythms,” Chang continues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
To accommodate himself to the different spirits he modulates his voice, changes the character of his dance, and alters his costume.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
Aeva’s lidar is a little different from others, using “frequency modulated continuous wave” technology, which means it’s more immune to glare and sunlight and easier to use to calculate the velocity of objects.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Most political and foreign-policy actions can be modulated, corrected or refined over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
It was a carefully modulated message in an area in which she has a double-digit advantage over Trump.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
I’m sure we modulated on set and that editorial choices were made to shade it, but everyone knew the target.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Then he straddled his driver’s seat backward and, in his reedy but modulated tenor voice, gave us the new installment of “The Laughing Man.”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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The rare combination of off-grain fermentation and column distillation offers yet another lever to pull when it comes to modulating flavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Everyone is kind of modulating their behavior based on how they are appearing out of body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
"This next phase focuses not on promises, but on carefully determining whether modulating this pathway is safe, feasible, and ultimately meaningful for human disease."
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
I support having some way of modulating that asymmetry, such as through rent stabilization.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
He had been dancing about the stage, waving his spear, modulating his voice, and now suddenly he became still, and lowered his voice.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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