tamper with
Example Sentences
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The initial search focused on video footage that showed a masked person wearing gloves and a backpack appearing to tamper with a camera at her front door the morning she disappeared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The most plausible answer, of course, is that Luke’s account was finished before their deaths and no one in subsequent decades felt sufficiently bold to tamper with it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The new passports will also feature updated security features, the Home Office said, including the latest anti-forgery technology - making them "harder to forge or tamper with".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
“Utility companies have a troubling history of exploiting the chaos during and after major fires to destroy or tamper with critical evidence,” Ali Moghaddas, an attorney with Edelson PC, said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025
To tamper with something as mysterious and miraculous as the birth of a child was an act of hubris.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
