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calibrate

[kal-uh-brayt] / ˈkæl əˌbreɪt /


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fine-tune
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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

“For advisers, the goal is to help calibrate a client’s confidence so that they’re more intentional, to establish clarity and understanding of taking this level of risk and why they’re doing it.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

To evaluate and calibrate the imager, researchers are comparing Psyche's flyby observations with data collected by other spacecraft and rovers at Mars.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 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

China calibrates its cooperation on counternarcotics in response to the overall U.S. relationship, said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a counternarcotics expert at the Brookings Institution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

And Edelstein brilliantly calibrates the pacing of the plot to keep the audience hooked from start to finish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024

He carefully calibrates his criticisms of Mr Putin.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024

Jordan calibrates the competing emotions with direct, unfussy skill, allowing “Creed III” to unfold in ways that don’t necessarily break the mold but prove enormously satisfying nonetheless.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023

Such a number calibrates crudely what humans know.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Islamabad confirmed "planned and calibrated" strikes in Afghanistan, without detailing locations, which it said targeted militants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 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

“In my view, we were using improperly calibrated, sometimes faulty, and fundamentally insensitive equipment to monitor areas with known chemical hazards,” Dixon said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Ms. Musgraves has a limited voice in terms of technical ability, but she’s good at calibrating her phrasing to match a song’s mood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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

Ed Yardeni, founder and president of Yardeni Research, suggested the readings indicate how investors are calibrating the economic impact of the Persian Gulf conflict.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

By uncovering these previously hidden dynamics, the findings reshape how scientists think about testing and calibrating superconducting quantum processors.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026

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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