- present participle of tweak.
tweaking
Example Sentences
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Early this year, the agency introduced new methods to try to mitigate those issues, tweaking its model that helps the agency account for brand-new businesses and businesses that have just closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
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
