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tweak

[tweek] / twik /
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adjust
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"He just had to tweak his code to follow the uneven and changing thickness along the length of the scroll."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The change likely isn’t a sign of any major shifts in the education Princeton and MIT provide students, and instead is the result of a tweak in the methodology U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

"There is a constant discussion and I think that they are on it and understand that we can tweak it a little bit here or there."

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Open-weight AI models are akin to open-source software, allowing users to see and tweak the source technology as opposed to just seeing the outputs of “black box” models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The problem, as it turned out, was not so much bad math as false hope: Colin had been trying to tweak the Theorem to make K-19's graph look like:

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

The department says minor mistakes or admin tweaks, such as correcting a name on a booking form, can cost passengers up to £40.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Automakers are leaning on appearance tweaks and special features to freshen up their lineups, rolling out retro throwbacks, special-edition paint packages and niche trim levels to keep buyers interested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Such direct relationships, he stressed, are the core asset of modern journalism, even as tech platforms continually insert themselves between news outlets and their readers and viewers through algorithm tweaks.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

But the look and tone of “60 Minutes” remained intact, with only a few minor tweaks to the graphics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

“I made a few more tweaks last night,” Dari said.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

From time to time the disguised funding scheme would be tweaked to "assist with continued concealment" and "reduce the likelihood of difficult questions being asked".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Hugging Face is a leading platform for accessing open-weight AI, meaning the underlying numerical parameters can be downloaded and tweaked by users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Behun, a government and chemistry major, hopes Gay’s class offers a forum to better understand the model’s design, and discuss how it could be tweaked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Oracle lived up to high expectations on Thursday as the cloud and software giant tweaked its forecasts higher and sent an upbeat signal about future business.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

She reached out and tweaked my cheek the way my grandmother would and said, “What’s up, cutie?”

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Needing 68 from 75 balls, England were cruising towards a target of 322 until Buttler retired hurt on 67 after tweaking a hamstring.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Smaller improvements — like adjusting the amount of oil used to fry chicken and tweaking other fryer settings — would go a long way across its more than 46,000 restaurants worldwide, executives said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

In the meantime, there’s a lot of unwieldy comic commotion involving a missing corpse, a tweaking, naked Dwight and enough insipid TV sibling bickering to clog the airwaves for a decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Some experts mentioned other technological solutions to help with public health: namely, the tweaking of algorithms to make it so the most inflammatory accounts aren’t always rewarded.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

It spent sev­eral minutes tweaking its feathers with its beak, exposing soft down.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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