calibrate

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Authorities coordinate with airlines to carve out the safest corridors, and planes calibrate their altitude to minimize their time in threat zones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

U.S. stocks are getting some support from the bond market in early Monday trading, as investors begin to calibrate how damage from the war in Iran will affect growth in the world’s biggest economy.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Whether that bet will pay off remains to be seen, but the broader market stabilized somewhat as investors continued to calibrate geopolitical impacts.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

The prime minister insisted on what he saw as the merits of "calm discussion" - but had to judge how to calibrate his response, both publicly and privately.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan