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tweaking

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


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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

Unlike last time, when El Niño hit a market in deficit, supplies are ample today, partly thanks to confectioners shrinking chocolate bars and tweaking recipes to use less cocoa after the last price surge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

I always go as Esther, tweaking my outfit each year.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan



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