Example Sentences

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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,” Chang continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2023

The phone converts your voice into an electric signal, which modulates a radio wave.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2023

The EEG recording is simply fed into a gadget that modulates a carrier wave.

From The Electronic Mind Reader by Blaine, John