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  • present participle of tweak.
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tweaking

[twee-king] / ˈtwi kɪŋ /
VERB
adjust
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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

Computers have replaced automobiles for a certain tribe of working-class American tinker- ers who can never stop tweaking their machines and are constantly scrounging for new or used parts.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz



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