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tweak

[tweek] / twik /
VERB
adjust
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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

It may seem obvious but that tweak is really playing into Robinson's strengths.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

If they detected any aberrations, they’d tweak the machines after the fact.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

I weighed what Nolan chose to protect, tweak and abandon in his own version and concluded that he wanted to make an action-tragedy about societal decline.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Then I tweak the drawings and we upload again.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

Aviation Minister Keir Mather said the project would test "small tweaks to flight paths over the Atlantic" which could help make flying cleaner.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Now those players are back, and it’s all about making smaller tweaks along a solid line.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

“I made a few more tweaks last night,” Dari said.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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

When working on music, do you ever hear a song the first time through and go, “This needs to be tweaked a little bit. It’s not NCT 127 enough?”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

The tournament was also tweaked to place over two days in the week before the main draw began.

From BBC Aug. 22, 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

She reached out and tweaked my cheek the way my grandmother would and said, “What’s up, cutie?”

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Tech writer Alex Heath, who uses A.I. in a back-and-forth process with his own tweaking, explained recently that Pangram judged his text to be 100 percent human.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

Like rats in a Skinner box being conditioned to get food or stop pain, AI models hill-climb in a process similar to reinforcement learning, tweaking their parameters based on feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 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

“You can’t solve everything by tweaking your nanites,” her mother told her.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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