modulate
Example Sentences
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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
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
Some of these regulatory sequences, called 'enhancers', work like dimmer switches used to modulate the light in our living room.
From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2024
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
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