modulate
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Olsen: Over the course of the series, how did you modulate how crazy to seem?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
“So they are able to modulate their demand.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Other advantages include no launching device, the ability to modulate the beam's intensity, and unlimited "ammunition."
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
"It truly is the first time in history that one can modulate activity deep in the brain, centimeters from the scalp, examining subcortical structures with high spatial resolution," Freeman says.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026
She said nothing, but used her hands to modulate Mammachi’s fury, to stoke it anew.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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The study, "EXPRESS: Rapamycin increases cerebral blood flow and modulates metabolic, inflammatory, and microbiome profiles in healthy middle-aged APOE4 carriers: a pilot single-arm trial" was published in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 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
Among his contemporaries Tolstoy was the only one who matches him in the accumulation of details, but for the Russian every detail modulates into another, notwithstanding their enormous number.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
If, miraculously, the Strait of Hormuz reopens soon, that would be modulated.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
"Having observed 3D genome alterations across cancers, including leukemia and brain tumors, our next aim is to explore how these structures can be precisely targeted and modulated using drugs such as epigenetic inhibitors," Yue said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
Most political and foreign-policy actions can be modulated, corrected or refined over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
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
“There are ribbons of electromagnetic material in the lining of the bookcases. The strength of those magnets will be modulated by our maglev computer based on the call number you input.”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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"Unlike gene re-expression strategies, SLC6A20 inhibition works by modulating endogenous signaling pathways and may offer a more practical therapeutic route," said Director Eunjoon Kim.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
I support having some way of modulating that asymmetry, such as through rent stabilization.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 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
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