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  • present participle of tweak.
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tweaking

[twee-king] / ˈtwi kɪŋ /
VERB
adjust
Synonyms


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UnitedHealth Group, Humana and CVS Health subsidiary Aetna are among those exiting markets or tweaking their coverage offerings as they try to protect profit margins instead of pushing for growth in new subscribers, analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 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

Like rats in a Skinner box being conditioned to get food or stop pain, AI models hill-climb in a process similar to reinforcement learning, tweaking their parameters based on feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Ferris could not resist tweaking the Exposition Company for not granting him a concession sooner than it did.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson



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