refine

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When they designed a table using a plank with a natural gap, they left the gap in the center, which helped them get the right width and refine its shape.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Public users start by typing in a strategy or investment thesis, then refine its parameters with follow-up questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The team plans to refine its predictions for future experiments and investigate how this framework connects to particle physics and other unanswered questions about the early universe.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

All parties will have an opportunity to refine their legal arguments as cases brought by individuals, school districts and states wind through the courts.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

There they began to apply skills they had learned from the Muslims: how to plant sugar cane, and how to refine sugar.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson