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tampering

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If you’ve never tampered with Google’s search settings, then you are always getting the results for the country you are currently in.

Outraged, Miller threw the sushi away, afraid that someone in the restaurant had spit in or otherwise tampered with his food, he later told colleagues.

That firm, Chainalysis, published a blog post detailing how it analyzed the Bitcoin blockchain—a tamper-proof public ledger of transactions—to track the hacker’s activities.

From Fortune

I’ve been hearing about voting polls being tampered with, mail being held up to stop voting, and all kinds of other schemes to make sure every vote isn’t counted.

Such language is consistent with Square CEO Jack Dorsey’s recent advocacy for digital currencies like Bitcoin, which are controlled by no central authority, and which create a tamper-proof record of transactions.

From Fortune

Because of this, tampering with the nature of one has an impact on the nature of the other.

But he grew intolerant of clients tampering with his illustrations.

Why is he re-introducing the idea of tampering with Medicare in an election year?

Her fellow firefighters strung a giant bra across the firehouse ceiling and endangered her life by tampering with her oxygen tank.

XXXX is the same officer investigated for witness tampering.

Many instruments have had the sound holes spoiled and the surface of the wood inside gored by unskilful tampering with the post.

At first Brodrick was more than ever enraged with Prothero for tampering with other people's families like that.

Civil law, which is God's ordinance, prohibits tampering with any testament of man.

Facts like these show how stubbornly a language resists radical tampering with its phonetic pattern.

This was treason—an overt tampering with the allegiance of the followers; and the subordinate was driven forth with contumely.

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On this page you'll find 163 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tampering, such as: inquisitive, interested, analytical, disquisitive, examining, and impertinent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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