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modulate

[moj-uh-leyt] / ˈmɒdʒ əˌleɪt /


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“So they are able to modulate their demand.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

"It truly is the first time in history that one can modulate activity deep in the brain, centimeters from the scalp, examining subcortical structures with high spatial resolution," Freeman says.

From Science Daily Feb. 4, 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

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

The CD300f receptor is a protein expressed by immune system cells that modulates cell metabolism and inflammation.

From Science Daily Nov. 28, 2023

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

In most of his pieces Scarlatti modulates to the dominant; in minor, to the relative major.

From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by Shedlock, J. S. (John South)

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

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

If you find that the chord progression in a piece of music suddenly contains many chords that you would not expect in that key, it may be that the piece has modulated.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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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