modulated

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 have a charcoal-gray pencil skirt that’s hard to walk in despite the kick pleat, and a bat wing sweater, a red one with modulated gray horizontal stripes across it.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood