calibrate
Example Sentences
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Since the end of World War II, Washington’s relationship with Moscow was its most carefully calibrated, helmed by spy agencies who knew their rival intimately.
Because of this, frequency combs act as reference standards that can be used to calibrate and stabilize many types of instruments over a wide range of frequencies.
From Science Daily
During closed-door meetings in recent weeks, the president’s aides have pressed him to calibrate his message on affordability.
Eileen was always kind of calibrating, “I know you very well, but what are you up to?”
From Los Angeles Times
This talent for precisely calibrating the elements that convey status and fashionability is probably possible only in someone with intimate knowledge of social insecurity.
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