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modulate

[moj-uh-leyt] / ˈmɒdʒ əˌleɪt /


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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

"The idea is, can we use food-based interventions to modulate inflammation?" said lead author Jessica Cooperstone, associate professor of horticulture and crop science at The Ohio State University.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

Olsen: How have you come to learn that distinction and how to modulate your performance, like knowing what you can do for a camera versus what you’re doing for the audience?

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2025

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

I had almost forgotten that humans can modulate their voices to express the emotion they are feeling.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

"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

And, if Phil., as to the general movement of his Protestant pleadings, modulates too little in the transcendental key, sometimes he does so too much.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

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

It was a carefully modulated message in an area in which she has a double-digit advantage over Trump.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2024

Observed temperatures are a product of this long-term trend modulated by shorter-term natural variations.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2024

They are painted in another style: smooth, finely modulated, realistic as a snapshot.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

They added, "Preoperative vitamin D supplementation in breast cancer patients with vitamin D levels below 30 nmol/L may have a role in modulating postoperative pain."

From Science Daily May 20, 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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