: 'modulate for' - an unconventional but tolerated verb-preposition combination? Calling all gifted writers, would you tolerate 'modulate for' in this paragraph? "Dr. Tom wants the best for everybody

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Omit for

The problem is that modulate means that something modulates something else. Your sentence reads as if you want to say that the spiritual treatment might change the patient's already healthy body and mind, depending on the mental state of the patient. Therefore you can just use modulate without any other word being necessary.

his work is a spiritual treatment that in turn might modulate [for] the patient’s healthy body and mind

You wouldn't normally use modulate together with for. In your example it sounds wrong and is difficult to read.

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