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fine-tune

[fahyn-toon, -tyoon] / ˈfaɪnˈtun, -ˈtjun /
VERB
make small adjustments
Synonyms


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The engineers use those question-answer-reasoning sets to fine-tune their “student model” and adjust its weights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The company has changed out 75% of its assortment of decorative accessories, a move that has attracted customers, but management cited a need to fine-tune the home section.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

This arrangement created an octacoordinate ligand environment, giving the scientists a way to fine-tune the positions of the metals.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

A 4-2 defeat to Real Sociedad on Tuesday will irritate their perfectionist head coach, but there is plenty of time for him to fine-tune the Europa League holders before the start of the new campaign.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

I fine-tune her hair, placing a nice wave in the strands, adding a shiny gloss like Padma's black hair, and thickening it in the crown.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The agency fine-tunes its employment estimates every year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Alibaba’s Qwen family alone accounts for 69% of new fine-tunes, while Meta’s Llama has collapsed from 44% to 11%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

"It's like a nutrient that fine-tunes how your body reads your genes," she said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026

“I just feel like this woman has a little bit of mystery and strength,” Althouse says, as Soria fine-tunes the woman’s leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

"Tell me what you buy and I'll tell you who you are"-mug shots of all of us are taken continuously, by extremely inventive digital devices, while the market fine-tunes us.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

"This shows we can have incredibly fine-tuned control of sound, which might mean that devices that use sound as a fundamental technology can get much better," he said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ukraine began its drone campaign against Russian refineries and energy infrastructure about a year ago, but it has since fine-tuned the attacks, which are now more damaging, Columbia’s Mitrova said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

With all the data available after the race, we fine-tuned a little bit the set-up around that new spec.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Pulido started attending celebrations in mid-March and since then, his campaign has fine-tuned the appearances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

I didn’t just listen, I fine-tuned my listener.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

With only minimal fine-tuning, the optical processor achieved 94.80% accuracy and 97.61% sensitivity on previously unseen VEO-3 videos during experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

With a little fine-tuning, a model can pilot a robot in the real world as if it were a character in a videogame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Already, McDaniel has done some tinkering and fine-tuning, tweaking Herbert’s footwork out of the shotgun formation to allow him to get the ball out of his hands a fraction of a second earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Earlier this week, AI lab Thinking Machines announced its latest Inkling model, which used outputs generated by Kimi K2.5 during the fine-tuning phase.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Learn any alternate fingerings and other "tricks" available on your instrument for fine-tuning each note as you play.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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