modulate

Zips were used to modulate the length of skirts, they ran across leather jackets and down a flared blue pair of trousers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

“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

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

"This opens up a new window into how the brain monitors and modulates body physiology," said Dr. Zuker, a professor of biochemistry, molecular biophysics and neuroscience at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 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

The EEG recording is simply fed into a gadget that modulates a carrier wave.

From The Electronic Mind Reader by John Blaine

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

If, miraculously, the Strait of Hormuz reopens soon, that would be modulated.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 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

“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

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

In his eighty-fourth year, Ringo handles the vocals with impressive skill, modulating his drawl for maximum effect.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 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