tamper
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When agents go rogue, they can tamper with or delete valuable files.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
Law enforcement on Tuesday released photos and video of a masked individual appearing to tamper with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door on the morning of her disappearance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
It also says that the product "features tamper detection technology to prevent people from covering that light".
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026
Both antibiotics tamper with bacteria's ability to make new proteins by specifically targeting their ribosomes.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2024
The tamper would prevent flying neutrons from escaping, bouncing them instead back into the uranium.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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