calibrate
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"We're going to find scary vulnerabilities with the amazing capabilities that OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing online, but we need to calibrate the messaging," posted Mark Maunder, founder of Wordfence - a Wordpress security tool.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
For the first four days, I periodically used the included cuff to calibrate the wearable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
It’s a decidedly unique production, as the 74-minute opera requires that performers and musicians calibrate the score and vocals to preexisting work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
For the remainder of its three-month commissioning period, scientists and engineers will carefully test and calibrate Roman's instruments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
It’s true that every writer must calibrate the degree of specialization in her language against her best guess of the audience’s familiarity with the topic.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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The economic task force, to be led by McMillon, the former Walmart executive, and economists Raj Chetty and Kevin Murphy, will review how the Fed calibrates its read on economic activity in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
And Edelstein brilliantly calibrates the pacing of the plot to keep the audience hooked from start to finish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024
He carefully calibrates his criticisms of Mr Putin.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024
A poised and appealing performer, Nagle calibrates the story’s tonal shifts capably, while also capturing Jean’s energy and acing the humor.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Such a number calibrates crudely what humans know.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Islamabad confirmed "planned and calibrated" strikes in Afghanistan, without detailing locations, which it said targeted militants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the strikes were "deliberate, precise, calibrated, and proportionate, and strictly limited to identified military objectives directly linked to the attempted attacks against Pakistan".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Managers improperly calibrated testing equipment and questioned results showing elevated contamination, Dixon said in her affidavit, while equipment that recorded contamination was taken out of use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Recent attacks also seem calibrated to target the facilities’ most expensive and most difficult-to-replace components, making repairs take even longer, Mitrova said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
He had taken on a careful and calibrated charm.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A close relationship between these rates is critical to calibrating monetary policy because few transactions that matter for key macro variables like gross domestic product, employment and inflation depend on the overnight interest rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Anche's team is examining the structure of extrasolar systems, while Hom is leading efforts to identify the best stars for calibrating the Coronagraph Instrument.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
“We see very high demand for our compute products, we’re working hard to meet demand and we’re constantly calibrating and assessing what it will do to the total available market in the future,” Feng said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
He said the technology would help with error correction while calibrating which AI algorithms should be used on GPUs and quantum processors.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
Warriors were now in place from every world where Lord Asriel’s rebellion had supporters; mechanics and artificers were fueling aircraft, loading weapons, and calibrating sights and measures.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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