modulate
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“So they are able to modulate their demand.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
They’d arrived at an uneasy truce—Mamma didn’t have to modulate her tone if Dimple didn’t have to drop everything and rush to her aid for saffron emergencies.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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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
"Ketogenic diet modulates gut microbiota-brain metabolite axis in a sex-and genotype-specific manner in APOE4 mice" was published in the Journal of Neurochemistry.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
The EEG recording is simply fed into a gadget that modulates a carrier wave.
From The Electronic Mind Reader by Blaine, John
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
"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
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
His voice was slightly modulated but easy to understand.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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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
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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