How to Use fine-tuned in a Sentence

fine-tuned

adjective
  • Of course, handling is fine-tuned by a host of factors.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The forecast will be fine-tuned in the coming days.
    — Justin Lewis, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This is not a movie that feels fine-tuned to death in studio meetings.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The model is open-source and has already been fine-tuned for other tasks.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
  • More dangerously, their guardrails can be fine-tuned away.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The system is still days away, so the forecast will continue to change and be fine-tuned.
    — Justin Lewis, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The forecast will continue to be fine-tuned as the weekend approaches.
    — Justin Lewis, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Keep in mind that this winter blast is still evolving and will need to be fine-tuned and updated regularly.
    — Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Their background as water dogs and hunters has fine-tuned their olfactory senses to an elite level.
    — Pat Mueller, USA Today, 24 July 2026
  • Products can also be fine-tuned to accommodate certain kinds of models.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • There are aspects of running a business that, when focused on, must be fine-tuned to prevent the business from suffering.
    — Micah Logan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Over the years, Infalt has fine-tuned his approach into a reliable strategy.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Researchers later fine-tuned the results in software to account for small hardware variations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Proofpoint has fine-tuned its models down to about 300 million parameters.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Both songs were actually recorded on the same day, proving Juvenile’s ear is fine-tuned for making hits.
    — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 31 Mar. 2026
  • For instance, in 2018, Ristroph and colleagues fine-tuned the recipe for the perfect bubble based on experiments with soapy thin films.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
  • Prepared by Paolo Bressan, the full chorus raised thrilling dins on opening night, although the men weren’t always fine-tuned at the beginning.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The manual skills with which the products are applied, for example, were fine-tuned by Madame Allouche herself, a very talented osteopath.
    — Valentina Bottoni, Vanity Fair, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The preset low-speed compression and rebound damping settings can be fine-tuned further with twelve clicks of compression adjustment and sixteen clicks of rebound adjustment.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The plane’s fuselage and extra-long wing section were trucked separately from the cannery to Dutch Flats, where the aircraft was finally assembled and fine-tuned.
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The show is not yet as fine-tuned as its predecessor; some dialogue could use less theatrical melodrama and characterizations could be tightened, but staging is stellar.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Starship’s first 13 flights all flew suborbital trajectories by design, as SpaceX fine-tuned the launch vehicle’s design.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • This set the stage for a co-evolutionary relationship where, over generations, cats began to produce meows that are more fine-tuned for human communication.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The world’s estimated 500 million pastoralists have fine-tuned the skill of living off the meat, dairy, fibers, and hides produced by their herds of sheep, cattle, camels, yaks, reindeer, and llamas.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Researchers at Samsung Electronics in Korea have successfully fine-tuned a method to build nanoscale semiconductor chips at industrial scales.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Toastique was founded in 2018 by Brianna Keefe, who had fine-tuned her own avocado toast while at James Madison University.
    — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • That’s thanks in part to a Chinese AI model, Alibaba’s Qwen, that’s fine-tuned using Pinterest’s data and supports tools like shopping assistants and chatbots.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • For the Spéirling, Helix supplies a bespoke drive system featuring two of its SPX242-94 motors fine-tuned to work with McMurtry's bespoke gearbox.
    — New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Hugging Face The Microduck's movement and capabilities can be fine-tuned using an open source software development kit (SDK) and reinforcement learning training stack.
    — New Atlas, 31 Aug. 2026
  • By leveraging internet-scale, video data fine-tuned on real robot experience, NEO can visualize future actions, predict outcomes, and execute them with human-like understanding– all without prior examples.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026

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