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Six example sentences with modulated, each labelled with its topic.
Her voice stayed carefully modulated through the ballad, never rising above the guitar until the final chorus.
Music
The therapist praised the boy's modulated speech, a real gain for a child who had shouted every sentence in April.
Medicine
The alert is modulated so that it grows quieter in a silent room and louder beside a running engine.
Technology
The narrator's modulated voice rises only once in the whole documentary, and the moment lands harder for all the quiet before it.
Movies
The candidate kept a modulated tone through the debate, never raising his voice even when the moderator interrupted twice.
Politics
A calm, modulated voice lowers a distressed caller's breathing rate, which is why hotline volunteers practice it for weeks.
Psychology
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