calibrate
Example Sentences
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This talent for precisely calibrating the elements that convey status and fashionability is probably possible only in someone with intimate knowledge of social insecurity.
The seemingly mundane task of taking photos of vehicles for sale is actually a carefully calibrated, standardized and coordinated operation aiming to make the consumer comfortable and the experience frictionless, she said.
From MarketWatch
A lot of what officials, economists and investors know about the economy is derived from looking at government statistics and using that data to calibrate economic models.
From Barron's
They are the queen and king of carefully calibrated consistency, and one wishes that from time to time Mr. Serrano would follow their lead and lose some of the repetition and one-word paragraphs.
To confirm the meaning of these chemical signatures, seawater samples collected by the research vessel Eugen Seibold were used to calibrate the nitrogen isotopes in modern corals, demonstrating that they reliably record nitrogen fixation.
From Science Daily
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