modulate
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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
Other advantages include no launching device, the ability to modulate the beam's intensity, and unlimited "ammunition."
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 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
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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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 brain modulates visual signals according to internal states, as a new study by LMU neuroscientist Laura Busse reveals.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 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
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 J. S. (John South) Shedlock
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
It was a carefully modulated message in an area in which she has a double-digit advantage over Trump.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
I’m sure we modulated on set and that editorial choices were made to shade it, but everyone knew the target.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
They are painted in another style: smooth, finely modulated, realistic as a snapshot.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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"Demonstrating that it's possible to treat severe periodontitis by modulating the body's own response is new and relevant information that helps preserve antibiotics for when they are truly indispensable," says Feres.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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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