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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of modulate.

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Examples

  • (Wechsel der Töne), as the poem modulates from the "naive" tone of its opening scene, to the

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • Divorce and various manifestations of adulterous love provide many of her plots, and her tone modulates from the ironic to the tragic to the tragicomic, sometimes subtly shifting within a single story.

    Wharton's Sharp Eye 2001

  • Divorce and various manifestations of adulterous love provide many of her plots, and her tone modulates from the ironic to the tragic to the tragicomic, sometimes subtly shifting within a single story.

    Wharton's Sharp Eye 2001

  • Taken together, all these data demonstrate that under hypoxia bcl-2 overexpression modulates HIF-1α expression at a post-translational level through the stabilization of the HIF-1α protein.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Daniela Trisciuoglio et al. 2010

  • Holopainen T, Huang H, Chen C, Kim KE, Zhang L, et al. (2009) Angiopoietin-1 overexpression modulates vascular endothelium to facilitate tumor cell dissemination and metastasis establishment.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ethan Cerami et al. 2010

  • Hofmann SM, Zhou L, Perez-Tilve D, Greer T, Grant E, et al. (2007) Adipocyte LDL receptor-related protein-1 expression modulates postprandial lipid transport and glucose homeostasis in mice.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Li Zhou et al. 2009

  • Hofmann SM, Zhou L, Perez-Tilve D, Greer T, Grant E, et al. (2007) Adipocyte LDL receptor-related protein-1 expression modulates postprandial lipid transport and glucose homeostasis in mice.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • The pictorial name of the project was dictated by the orientation of the house and the way it modulates, softens and fragments the intense western light.

    ChiaroScuro House by Studio Ectypos 2009

  • Lin RY, Sullivan KM, Argenta PA, Lorenz HP, Adzick NS: Species-specific in situ hybridization demonstrates that the human fetal fibroblast modulates scarless repair.

    CHOP scarless fetal wound healing publications 2010

  • The Wall Street Journal (illustration) Associated Press (photo); Universal Music Publishing (score) Adele slightly modulates her pitch at the end of some long notes, adding to the tension.

    Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker Michaeleen Doucleff 2012

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