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calibrate

verb as in fine-tune

Strongest matches

Strong match

verb as in graduate

verb as in quantify

verb as in scale

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Johnson Hall said the new approach gives the city flexibility to better calibrate funding amounts to help developers meet the fluctuating cost of projects.

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In March, Viridor realised that its monitoring software was incorrectly calibrated and that a reassessment revealed it had been breached daily pollution limits for nitrogen oxides regularly between August 2022 and March 2024.

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Russian propaganda, he argues, is also spread smartly: its content is calibrated to cater to specific audiences, even if it means adopting different ideological stances in different regions.

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All of the elements of “Shucked” are perfectly calibrated to shamelessly win us over.

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In a healthy democracy, public opinion can be understood as a type of barometer that elected officials use to calibrate their agendas and behaviors.

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

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