tweak
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The way you need to tweak it for retirement is to pay more attention to how you are going to take money out of that pile to spend it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Influential co-owner Behdad Eghbali also publicly acknowledged the need to "tweak the model", improve decision-making and learn from mistakes.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Businesses can tweak it to operate it entirely on their own devices and create AI assistants that manage schedules, draft messages and organize files.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Indexes also tweak their lists of constituents on different schedules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It turned its terrible fourth head to see and destroy whatever the impudent thing was that dared to tweak its tail.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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Later, Moshiri was able to get on an immunotherapy treatment called interferon through the NHS, and after some tweaks, she says she is in a better place.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
What tweaks can you make to your spending that will free up $77 a week?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
He and other researchers say AI companies can help address the issue with simple tweaks, including greater transparency about where information comes from.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Bubic said the Dodgers have already presented him with a couple mechanical tweaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
I catch myself, but the impact tweaks my knee.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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With the deal, Nvidia is helping foster the ecosystem Hugging Face built for so-called open-weight AI tools that can be downloaded and tweaked by anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Pep has taught all these coaches, but only Arteta has tweaked it and kind of said "I am going to use all the principles, but this is my way of doing it".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The new category came as part of a bevy of added or tweaked awards and nominating rules that will debut at next year’s ceremony on Feb. 7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
When concerns about jet-fuel supplies hit markets in the spring, U.S. and European refineries tweaked their yields to produce more of the fuel, which helped put those worries to rest.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
The man tweaked his son’s nose, and David rolled his eyes.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Early this year, the agency introduced new methods to try to mitigate those issues, tweaking its model that helps the agency account for brand-new businesses and businesses that have just closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Some experts mentioned other technological solutions to help with public health: namely, the tweaking of algorithms to make it so the most inflammatory accounts aren’t always rewarded.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
PhD student James Metcalf, 24, said the experts were tweaking the telescopes to follow the passage of the Sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Already, McDaniel has done some tinkering and fine-tuning, tweaking Herbert’s footwork out of the shotgun formation to allow him to get the ball out of his hands a fraction of a second earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
He was immensely proud of Lin’s success with Ligaroti, but he enjoyed tweaking his son, and he was good at it.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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