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tamper

[tam-per] / ˈtæm pər /




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When agents go rogue, they can tamper with or delete valuable files.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Law enforcement on Tuesday released photos and video of a masked individual appearing to tamper with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door on the morning of her disappearance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

The e-passport includes a small chip that stores biometric information, making it harder to forge or tamper with the document.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Both antibiotics tamper with bacteria's ability to make new proteins by specifically targeting their ribosomes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2024

And if it is necessary to rearrange one’s memories or to tamper with written records, then it is necessary to forget that one has done so.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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