modulate
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Cambridge-based Modulate builds voice skins that allow you to cloak yourself in someone else’s voice.
From Slate • Aug. 16, 2019
Once, listening to the improvisations of a bright young student named Claude Debussy, Franck cried, "Modulate, modulate!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Pg 107 Learning to Modulate Is it possible to learn modulating from a book without the aid of a teacher, so as to connect two pieces of different tonality?
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef
O to watch the thirsty plants Imbibing! once or twice I thought to roar, To break my chain, to shake my mane: but thou, Modulate me, Soul of mincing mimicry!
From The Princess by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
This word is often used incorrectly instead of moderate in such sentences as: "Modulate your voice," when it is meant to command or request that the tone be moderated or lowered.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.
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