calipered

verb

past tense of caliper
as in calibrated

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  1. calibrated
  2. weighed
  3. measured
  4. quantified
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  • But the physical landscape of Fujian reflects a strategy calibrated for patience rather than urgency.
    — Ningrong Liu, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Spero said that Pangram is calibrated to call something AI-assisted only if the tool is extremely confident in its analysis.
    — T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of calibrated
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  • The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry because of a piece of foam that the astronaut estimates might have weighed about as much as a Styrofoam container.
    — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • One was described as a man about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, while the other stood at about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighed about 180 pounds.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of weighed
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  • The technical article did not provide enough detail to determine how broadly the result applies, how task quality was measured or whether the approach performs consistently across different software development scenarios.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
  • There, planetary scientists Carl Agee and Karen Ziegler measured its oxygen isotopes.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of measured
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  • Market share grew, methadone supply didn’t My research has quantified what actually happened after private equity acquisitions of opioid treatment programs.
    — Yashaswini Singh, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026
  • In the 1940s mathematician Claude Shannon quantified information as the reduction of uncertainty.
    — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of quantified
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