modulate

“So they are able to modulate their demand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

"Uncovering these mechanisms will help us better understand how nighttime physiology and sex-specific factors modulate caffeine's effects."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 31, 2026

Other advantages include no launching device, the ability to modulate the beam's intensity, and unlimited "ammunition."

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

Our research has found that public opinion—unlike precision-guided export controls—can be difficult to modulate once unleashed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

Given the capacity to control autonomic functions, modulate brain waves, run cells, why shouldn’t it be possible to employ exactly the same technology to go in precisely the opposite direction?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

The CD300f receptor is a protein expressed by immune system cells that modulates cell metabolism and inflammation.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

The highest literature is that which suggests life itself, and a living man has a beaming eye, a smiling face, a moving body, and a voice that modulates with every change in idea and feeling.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

So far prices have been modulated in financial markets by expectations of an imminent settlement and buffered in the physical market by the drawing down of inventories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 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 have a charcoal-gray pencil skirt that’s hard to walk in despite the kick pleat, and a bat wing sweater, a red one with modulated gray horizontal stripes across it.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

"There's been enough compelling evidence that compounds from tomatoes and soy might be modulating inflammation that we decided to test this in people," Cooperstone said.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026

I support having some way of modulating that asymmetry, such as through rent stabilization.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

The facilities will operate as what the companies on Monday called flexible energy assets, supporting power grids by modulating consumption and leveraging on-site generation and storage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

“It is for sure playing some role in modulating H5N1 disease in humans,” he said, but was unlikely the only factor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

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