as in adjusted
to make small changes to (something) in order to improve the way it works or to make it exactly right
fine-tune a TV set fine-tune the temperature of the room They're fine-tuning interest rates to achieve economic growth without inflation.
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Recent Examples of fine-tuned
The company fine-tuned an official bottled version of the popular beverage that doesn’t require tea bags or a 20-minute wait and introduced it last summer.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
Prompts that had been fine-tuned over months suddenly produced different outputs.
—Alberto Gimeno, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Later, the Act was expanded and fine-tuned with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
—Leslie Hoyle Guerra, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
Even the Oracle of Omaha and longtime Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has fine-tuned his own hiring philosophy.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2026
Moreover, the growth of CNTs around the fabric is uniform, and morphology can be fine-tuned using reaction parameters such as temperature, gas composition, and how the catalyst is distributed.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
Its nucleus is also far bigger than other notable comets, while its arrival time was fine-tuned to bring it within tens of millions of kilometers from Mars, Venus and Jupiter and be unobservable from Earth at perihelion, along with other unexpected properties.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Toastique was started in 2018 by former Division I cheerleader Brianna Keefe, who had fine-tuned her own avocado toast while at James Madison University.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Brown continued to lean on the turbo-sinker fastball that was his best pitch, but with the playoff opener against the Astros in mind, the righty also fine-tuned his four-seam fastball.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
Prompts that had been fine-tuned over months suddenly produced different outputs.
—Alberto Gimeno, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Later, the Act was expanded and fine-tuned with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
—Leslie Hoyle Guerra, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
Even the Oracle of Omaha and longtime Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has fine-tuned his own hiring philosophy.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2026
Moreover, the growth of CNTs around the fabric is uniform, and morphology can be fine-tuned using reaction parameters such as temperature, gas composition, and how the catalyst is distributed.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
Its nucleus is also far bigger than other notable comets, while its arrival time was fine-tuned to bring it within tens of millions of kilometers from Mars, Venus and Jupiter and be unobservable from Earth at perihelion, along with other unexpected properties.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Toastique was started in 2018 by former Division I cheerleader Brianna Keefe, who had fine-tuned her own avocado toast while at James Madison University.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Brown continued to lean on the turbo-sinker fastball that was his best pitch, but with the playoff opener against the Astros in mind, the righty also fine-tuned his four-seam fastball.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fine-tuned
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The 12-team CFP further adjusted the postseason when first-round games moved on campus, bringing consistent stakes back to those six bowls but back-burnering the rest of the bowl system.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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Wasil, who has a neon-green mullet, adjusted the beaded boutonnière on Hollister’s lapel.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Although each has invested in compliance tooling, their architectures are fundamentally optimized for scale and accessibility, not for the verifiable operational independence that regulated enterprises require.—
Steve McDowell,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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The chemical behind the explosion — ammonium nitrate — is not regulated under RMP.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
30 May 2026
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The ticket matched four winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, May 30, the California State Lottery said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
31 May 2026
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The bar for earning a customer’s confidence has risen steadily, and in most industries, it hasn’t been matched by a corresponding rise in how companies actually behave.—
Rhett Power,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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But now a range of companies are putting AI directly into the hands of golfers.—
Jack Bantock,
CNN Money,
5 June 2026
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These sell-offs, coupled with the rising import bill due to the surge in global oil prices, have weighed on the Indian rupee, putting it among the worst-performing currencies in Asia.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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Ridley Scott adapted Lucas' story into a biographical crime drama starring Denzel Washington as Lucas and Russell Crowe as Richie Roberts, the detective determined to take him down.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 June 2026
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That choice makes sense for many homes, especially homes adapted for people with mobility challenges.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2026
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“Fine-tuned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fine-tuned. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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