tamper

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

During a Test against South Africa, Smith admitted Australia's "leadership group" devised a plan to tamper with the ball.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

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

Both antibiotics tamper with bacteria's ability to make new proteins by specifically targeting their ribosomes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2024

These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no “high-minded orientation,” no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson