calibrate

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Recent Examples of calibrate But Korea is not experiencing large capital inflows or persistent currency appreciation seen in Japan a few years before the bubble burst, giving the Bank of Korea greater flexibility to calibrate policy. Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 24 July 2026 They are also calibrated precisely to each individual’s diagnostics. Jamie Timson, TheWeek, 24 July 2026 Effective oversight is calibrated to the nature, scale and demonstrated risk of each collaboration. Aliasger K. Salem, The Conversation, 23 July 2026 Those thresholds are calibrated to reach only a handful of the world’s largest AI companies, not Massachusetts startups, small businesses, or academic researchers. Jesse Rothman, Boston Herald, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for calibrate
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Verb
  • If the answer swings on how the question was phrased, the model is not measuring anything about the match.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • In its simplest form, scientists can put a chunk of soil in a mason jar, measure how much gas is released over time, then extrapolate a total figure.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Foundation Models Are Becoming Infrastructure The economics of foundation models increasingly resemble the economics of computing infrastructure.
    Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Zuckerberg acknowledged the potential to generate additional revenue by renting its computing infrastructure to other companies, and confirmed that Meta has plans to get into the cloud business, promising an update soon.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Instead, meteorologists divide the atmosphere into big boxes — a 3D grid — and calculate how each box changes on average over time.
    Matt von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2026
  • Child Care Aware of America calculated the national average annual child care price of $13,128 in 2024, or 35% of the median income of a single-parent household.
    Kristin Vance Richards, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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“Calibrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calibrate. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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