- present participle of adjust.
adjusting
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Employees tweaked the recipe, adjusting the amount and timing of the water they added and how long they mixed the dough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Are you, for example, comfortable withdrawing 4% from your retirement accounts in the first year and adjusting that rate for inflation in subsequent years?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Twenty years prior, in 1995, the starting hourly wage was $17.65, not adjusting for inflation.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
The findings suggest that adjusting to the stronger mechanical forces within tissues may be important for these protective cells to survive over time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
He was having a difficult time adjusting to being alone.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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