calibrate

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Recent Examples of calibrate According to Araki, having an intimacy coordinator helped calibrate the varying degrees of comfort. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 31 July 2026 Hatch chiles are a staple of Southwestern food, delivering a distinctive vegetal flavor and a spice level that can be calibrated to every taste. Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026 The entire system has been designed to be easy to use, from calibrating the G1X for the first time to creating models to filling ink to swapping print beds. New Atlas, 27 July 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for calibrate
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  • The team deployed two high-altitude balloons with light sensors and 31 weather balloons to measure temperature, pressure, wind speed and humidity.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Everything the team knows about how fast the plasma is actually moving comes from the simulations rather than from the telescope, and the magnetic field driving the whole thing has never been measured directly at this scale.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
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  • The new map is computed using the IQP eclipse computational method that accounts for an improved value for the eclipse solar radius as well as the exact shape of the moon and topography.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The team computed 500 spectral points across the observed wavelength band, applying the transmission profile of the real interference filter and blurring the result to match the real telescope’s resolution.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
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  • These superlatives were calculated based on data measured between May 25 and July 12; Nielsen operates on a multi-week delay for streaming titles.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
  • These values are used to calculate how much property taxes residents pay.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

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“Calibrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calibrate. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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