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Recent Examples of modulation
Her filmmaking choices, from fevered editing rhythms to an urgently swelling score, rarely favor understatement, while the performances benefit from a heartfelt, in-the-moment intensity, but little modulation or finesse.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
But endogenous opioids have an insider advantage as a natural part of the body’s interwoven system for pain modulation.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
The first-ever neuroimmune modulation implant has been approved for people with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who haven't found relief with traditional medications.
—New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
Jason and Travis Kelce are serious performers and broadcasters who are well aware of the need for proper modulation.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
But endogenous opioids have an insider advantage as a natural part of the body’s interwoven system for pain modulation.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
The first-ever neuroimmune modulation implant has been approved for people with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who haven't found relief with traditional medications.
—New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
Jason and Travis Kelce are serious performers and broadcasters who are well aware of the need for proper modulation.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for modulation
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After adjustments were made to address this issue, 4o remained incredibly popular.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
11 Nov. 2025
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The halftime adjustment from Bengals coach Randy Looney was for Hollenbeck to actually set the ball screen and force the defensive forward to prevent the point guard from turning the corner into the lane.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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Business models will hinge on electricity markups, adoption rates, and policy regulation to balance private investment with equitable access.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve is home to around 21,000 residents who follow dark-sky lighting regulations, and the property also includes Aorangi Forest Park public lands.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
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The charter reform and ballot proposals could help another developer in a similar position.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
5 Nov. 2025
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True reform requires something deeper—long-term investment, structural change and accountability.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Platinum-iridium alloys, with X-shapes to better resist distortions, replaced those originals.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Nov. 2025
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Drawn and composed in shifting degrees of blur, grain and focal distortion, the film traces how sight shapes emotional attachment.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Only one more vote is needed to overcome the filibuster, after the amendment votes, and then the bill will pass through the Senate.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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Lawmakers will take a flurry of amendment and procedural votes, Thune said, before ultimately sending the package over to the House of Representatives.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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Foremost, under his tenure, the transformation of the BBC to meet the challenges in a world of unprecedented change and competition is well underway.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
9 Nov. 2025
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Sustainable transformation isn’t achieved by a mandate; instead, it’s driven by leaders who focus on people first.—
Feon Ang,
Fortune,
7 Nov. 2025
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Fedorov also believed that this goal of rectification — of achieving immortality — would unite social groups whose mutual fear of death had historically pitted them in opposition to each other.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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Incident response times for physical rectification is pegged to drop by 40%.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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By carefully designing repeating units, researchers can control these deformations to perform different calculations and even reprogram the material after it has been made.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Asurvey of three species of octopuses from Europe and the Americas catalogued a total of 6,781 arm deformations.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Modulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modulation. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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