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calibrate

[kal-uh-breyt] / ˈkæl əˌbreɪt /


VERB
fine-tune
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Whether that bet pays off remains to be seen, but the broader market later stabilized somewhat as investors continued to calibrate the geopolitical impacts.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

Of course, those models do have to calibrate the inputs correctly.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

The analysts think it will take some time to calibrate Snap’s new strategy, which involves increasing sponsored Snaps, to avoid further slides in daily active users.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The prime minister insisted on what he saw as the merits of "calm discussion" - but had to judge how to calibrate his response, both publicly and privately.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

Very little effort was made to calibrate the experiments with plausible inorganic Martian surface materials.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan