tweak
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Businesses can tweak it to operate it entirely on their own devices and create AI assistants that manage schedules, draft messages and organize files.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
If they detected any issues, they’d tweak the machines after the fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
If they detected any aberrations, they’d tweak the machines after the fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
I weighed what Nolan chose to protect, tweak and abandon in his own version and concluded that he wanted to make an action-tragedy about societal decline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Listen,” she said, “if I am very afraid when you find me, don’t forget to tweak my ears. Call my name and tell me how to get home.”
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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Aviation Minister Keir Mather said the project would test "small tweaks to flight paths over the Atlantic" which could help make flying cleaner.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Now those players are back, and it’s all about making smaller tweaks along a solid line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Coupled with what Sasaki described as some mechanical tweaks to his lower half made over the All-Star break, it has left the Dodgers wondering if they’ve found an answer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
At Chelsea, one of Maresca's more unique tweaks involved playing Moises Caicedo at right-back.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Then he tweaks my nose like he might a naughty child, and dismisses us.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Some have tweaked their portfolios, shifting from overweight positions in large-cap tech stocks to a more neutral stance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But this was a part of the game Guardiola tweaked often last season, struggling to land on something he was completely happy with.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Closed AI models, such as those developed by rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, keep their code private and cannot be tweaked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
When concerns about jet-fuel supplies hit markets in the spring, U.S. and European refineries tweaked their yields to produce more of the fuel, which helped put those worries to rest.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Matthias watched her go until Methuselah tweaked his ear.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Tech writer Alex Heath, who uses A.I. in a back-and-forth process with his own tweaking, explained recently that Pangram judged his text to be 100 percent human.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 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
Some doctors are testing new approaches, seeing if tweaking the way NHS works can deliver better health.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Here, Madonna is liberated from Universal’s script notes or editing maneuvers, free from tweaking anyone’s performance to feel more like the real thing.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Miss Lilian’s hands strayed from her pearls to her hair and then to her dress, smoothing, twitching, tweaking, never still.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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