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as in twitching
to grasp and move with a small forceful motion
Hey, you tweaked my nose!
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as in adjusting
to make small adjustments to
You can tweak the settings to customize the display. He spent considerable time tweaking the recipe.
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as in mocking
to make (someone or something) the object of criticism, amusement, or laughter
They're always tweaking me about my northern accent.
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Recent Examples of tweaking
But, rather than tweaking the app to address those issues, Color Labs remained focused on signing up more users.
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Harvard Business Review, 27 Aug. 2025
The touch screen can be used with other widgets for switching performance profiles, controlling RGB settings, and tweaking other critical controls.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
The story of the Kim family and their Toronto convenience store blends generational and classic comedy by lovingly tweaking expectations about Korean parenting and stereotypes (Simu Liu cannot keep his shirt on as our first Asian himbo).
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
However, after tweaking her ankles on her floor exercise landings, Roberson opted to compete her simpler Yurchenko vault with a sting mat, incurring an automatic five-tenth deduction for using the extra mat.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Sometimes just tweaking the wiper arms using an adjustable wrench as a tool can quiet the noise and chatter.
—John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2025
Turning Selectivity Into Strategy A range of more discriminating strategies have been explored, including tweaking the shape and timing of electrical pulses and using multi-contact electrodes to maneuver currents in specific directions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
This allows for a large degree of flexibility to do things in software, whether that's changing the handling, tweaking the UI, or boosting power output.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
As reported, the German e-commerce giant aims to seize 15 percent of Europe’s 450 billion euro fashion market by tweaking its B2B and B2C strategies.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
Harvard Business Review, 27 Aug. 2025
The touch screen can be used with other widgets for switching performance profiles, controlling RGB settings, and tweaking other critical controls.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
The story of the Kim family and their Toronto convenience store blends generational and classic comedy by lovingly tweaking expectations about Korean parenting and stereotypes (Simu Liu cannot keep his shirt on as our first Asian himbo).
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
However, after tweaking her ankles on her floor exercise landings, Roberson opted to compete her simpler Yurchenko vault with a sting mat, incurring an automatic five-tenth deduction for using the extra mat.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Sometimes just tweaking the wiper arms using an adjustable wrench as a tool can quiet the noise and chatter.
—John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2025
Turning Selectivity Into Strategy A range of more discriminating strategies have been explored, including tweaking the shape and timing of electrical pulses and using multi-contact electrodes to maneuver currents in specific directions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
This allows for a large degree of flexibility to do things in software, whether that's changing the handling, tweaking the UI, or boosting power output.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
As reported, the German e-commerce giant aims to seize 15 percent of Europe’s 450 billion euro fashion market by tweaking its B2B and B2C strategies.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tweaking
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Koberidze opens with a montage of cats, foot traffic, street dogs twitching in their sleep, statues and trees casting long shadows across buildings.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
17 Aug. 2025
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Prater, who was expecting gory details, is a little harder to read, though his face twitching doesn’t seem like a great sign.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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At just 4 to 5 weeks old, the kittens are still adjusting to life without their mother after being fostered through A Place for Meow Rescue, a rescue based in Rapid City, South Dakota.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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As already mentioned, the minimum investment thresholds were raised to $800,000 in Targeted Employment Areas (rural, high-unemployment, or infrastructure projects) and $1,050,000 elsewhere, adjusting these amounts for inflation.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The key to his performance is empathy — Early resists mocking Maddie or her struggles at every turn.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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This is all on top of the late-night TV and social media posts mocking him, countless Democrats campaigning against him, and endless news and opinion articles calling him everything from a felon to a rapist to a threat to democracy to Hitler.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
6 Sep. 2025
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Otherwise, the Galaxy Watch 8 has Samsung’s One UI 8 interface on top of Wear OS 6 to put its own spin on interacting with your watch, with support for gesture controls to dismiss an alarm by twisting your wrist or take a picture by double-pinching your fingers.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 Aug. 2025
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Hypernova will ship bundled with an sEMG wristband, codenamed Ceres, that reads muscle signals in the wrist to enable discreet gesture controls such as pinching.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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His private 90-minute lessons focus on using smartphones to their full potential, covering topics like framing fast-moving animals, using advanced camera settings, and editing photos with apps.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The videos were apparently chosen for their clear depictions of celebrity faces, and are intended for use in training video-generation and video face-editing models.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Spotify has been teasing the high-fidelity format for years.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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On Instagram, Alcaraz — who defeated Jannik Sinner in four sets to win his second title at the prestigious tournament held in New York — shared a carousel of images, teasing the process of his hairstyle switch-up.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Practice rounds sometimes turn into showcases of raw talent, the kind that leave teammates shaking their heads at the sound off his club face.—
Zach Sweet,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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Police alleged that the brain bleed was consistent with shaking an infant.—
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Housing experts suggest that modifying zoning laws to permit smaller lot sizes is the most effective approach to developing smaller, affordable homes.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
2 Sep. 2025
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At the highest level, a good story has to reflect its audience while modifying that reflection.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Tweaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tweaking. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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