modulate
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But is that because dementia has robbed Leslie of the ability to modulate her urges?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
“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
"Gravitational waves modulate the quantum field, which in turn affects spontaneous emission," said Jerzy Paczos, a PhD student at Stockholm University.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 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 included a list of specimen arguments, explained how an audience could be swayed, and discussed everything from how to discredit a hostile witness to how best to modulate your voice when speaking.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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The follow-up study, "MTCH2 modulates CPT1 activity to regulate lipid metabolism of adipocytes," was published in Nature Communications on October 3, 2025.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 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
That’s the focus of a new study, “Reining in regret: emotion regulation modulates regret in decision making,” co-authored by Temple University’s Crystal Reeck and Kevin LaBar, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024
Every moulding bears the impress of utter refinement, and modulates the light which falls upon it with exquisite and harmonious gradations of shade.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various
If, miraculously, the Strait of Hormuz reopens soon, that would be modulated.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
The brakes have good stopping power and the pedal effort is easily modulated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 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
Then her voice modulated back to a comforting purr.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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"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
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
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