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calibrate

[kal-uh-brayt] / ˈkæl əˌbreɪt /


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fine-tune
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“For advisers, the goal is to help calibrate a client’s confidence so that they’re more intentional, to establish clarity and understanding of taking this level of risk and why they’re doing it.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

"In Switzerland, we can find engineers to design, work and assemble the machines, but we lack the expertise to test and calibrate them," Bonvin told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

They will have to figure out, as the aerospace industry did, how to calibrate their technologies for general use, adapted for different customer classes, price points and needs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

So now we’re able to calibrate between the two eras and mix them, which is exciting.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Very little effort was made to calibrate the experiments with plausible inorganic Martian surface materials.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

China calibrates its cooperation on counternarcotics in response to the overall U.S. relationship, said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a counternarcotics expert at the Brookings Institution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

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

Islamabad confirmed "planned and calibrated" strikes in Afghanistan, without detailing locations, which it said targeted militants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 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

It was a statement perfectly calibrated the next day in newspapers and local news broadcasts.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026

The dates that I report in this book for events within the last 15,000 years are calibrated dates.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Renne said the improved accuracy and precision of argon-argon dating should also make it especially useful for calibrating radiocarbon dating.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 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

This talent for precisely calibrating the elements that convey status and fashionability is probably possible only in someone with intimate knowledge of social insecurity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Delivering 2% inflation, she noted in September, requires “carefully calibrating the stance of policy.”

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 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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