tamper with
Example Sentences
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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
Recorded at 1:47 a.m. on Feb. 1, they show an individual, wearing a balaclava, gloves and a backpack, appearing to tamper with the camera at Guthrie’s front porch the morning of her disappearance.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Both antibiotics tamper with bacteria's ability to make new proteins by specifically targeting their ribosomes.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2024
“Any stranger who tried to tamper with the boat would be seen? There is no access to the harbour by public foot-path?”
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
