tamper with
Example Sentences
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“If I have instincts I feel are right, I don’t want anyone to tamper with them,” he told After Dark magazine in 1973.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
The most plausible answer, of course, is that Luke’s account was finished before their deaths and no one in subsequent decades felt sufficiently bold to tamper with it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
"We ask visitors not to tamper with any art on display," they added.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025
Both antibiotics tamper with bacteria's ability to make new proteins by specifically targeting their ribosomes.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2024
“It was to you that I had given my trust and the only way a stranger could tamper with that trust was with your permission. I blamed only you.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
