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calibrate

[kal-uh-brayt] / ˈkæl əˌbreɪt /


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fine-tune
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"When you factor in key physical processes and calibrate against historical observations, you gain a reliable pathway for narrowing uncertainty in projections," Poinelli said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

"We're going to find scary vulnerabilities with the amazing capabilities that OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing online, but we need to calibrate the messaging," posted Mark Maunder, founder of Wordfence - a Wordpress security tool.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

For the first four days, I periodically used the included cuff to calibrate the wearable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

It’s a decidedly unique production, as the 74-minute opera requires that performers and musicians calibrate the score and vocals to preexisting work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s true that every writer must calibrate the degree of specialization in her language against her best guess of the audience’s familiarity with the topic.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

McDonald’s frequently calibrates its machines to ensure the right amount of Coke syrup concentrate in its sodas to help retain their flavor even after ice cubes melted in the drinks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

The cartoon well calibrates its PG thrills to give kids a mild case of the shivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

He carefully calibrates his criticisms of Mr Putin.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024

A poised and appealing performer, Nagle calibrates the story’s tonal shifts capably, while also capturing Jean’s energy and acing the humor.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Such a number calibrates crudely what humans know.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“He’s a guy who knows how to win a purple district,” Germana had told me, and he’s calibrated his public persona and strategy around that.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

HDB plans to pass on the RBI’s 25-basis-point October repo hike to floating-rate loan-against-property customers, with rate revisions in other segments to be calibrated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the strikes were "deliberate, precise, calibrated, and proportionate, and strictly limited to identified military objectives directly linked to the attempted attacks against Pakistan".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Recent attacks also seem calibrated to target the facilities’ most expensive and most difficult-to-replace components, making repairs take even longer, Mitrova said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

A penny whisde, to this day, has the same limitation: to play tunes in a range of mode families you have to buy several penny whisdes, each calibrated to a different mode.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

A close relationship between these rates is critical to calibrating monetary policy because few transactions that matter for key macro variables like gross domestic product, employment and inflation depend on the overnight interest rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Anche's team is examining the structure of extrasolar systems, while Hom is leading efforts to identify the best stars for calibrating the Coronagraph Instrument.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

“We see very high demand for our compute products, we’re working hard to meet demand and we’re constantly calibrating and assessing what it will do to the total available market in the future,” Feng said.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026

He said the technology would help with error correction while calibrating which AI algorithms should be used on GPUs and quantum processors.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025

Warriors were now in place from every world where Lord Asriel’s rebellion had supporters; mechanics and artificers were fueling aircraft, loading weapons, and calibrating sights and measures.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman


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