tamper

Example Sentences

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When agents go rogue, they can tamper with or delete valuable files.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

It also says that the product "features tamper detection technology to prevent people from covering that light".

From BBC • Jan. 8, 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

Both antibiotics tamper with bacteria's ability to make new proteins by specifically targeting their ribosomes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2024

Several reporters, remembering the foiled attempts to kidnap Woolf and tamper with Seabiscuit, speculated that the foul was the result of a race-fixing conspiracy.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand