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modulate

verb as in adjust, harmonize

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Despite his apparent willingness to modulate his stance based on new information, he remains cautious about declaring either a labor-market slump or victory over inflation.

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"Working-class women, who are less used to modulating themselves in different settings, also get accused of being direct and also suffer in the corporate world."

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“What I’m trying to do is facilitate some kind of a conversation, to use their cues to modulate how much sarcasm I use,” says Bonfil.

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

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Oppenheimer modulates the lighting during the scenes from cool to warm and back again, underlining the vacillating feelings they can’t acknowledge outright.

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