tweak

Example Sentences

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But his favorite sport hasn’t looked the same since a minor tweak in Major League Baseball’s rulebook before the 2019 season loosened the color restrictions on player cleats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

“And if I needed to make a tweak, it would happen instantly.”

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

The rank-and-file are currently furious at her for recently, unsuccessfully trying to tweak L.A.’s so-called mansion tax.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

Boom in December raised $300 million in a round linked to plans to tweak its engine into a natural-gas turbine for power-hungry data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

She’d hacked into the Kinloch computer and every so often would tweak some of its code.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti