calipered

past tense of caliper

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for calipered
Verb
  • Goodman’s prose is clear rather than complex, and carefully calibrated to each of her characters; the book’s form corrals the natural speed of her sentences into act-length shapes that one moves around in one’s head like puzzle pieces.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • The clinical system is calibrated to the endpoint of disease.
    Elizabeth Bevins, STAT, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Global economies have already weighed energy options beyond the Middle East, as the war in Iran has put irreversible pressure on the oil industry, according to Karen Young, a researcher at Columbia University.
    Deva Lee, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
  • How that is playing out in terms of stylistic difference will have to be weighed by bootleg-favoring Dylanologists who are more attuned to the subtleties of band interplay.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • MoneyLion ranked the nation's 50 most affluent suburbs by household income, as measured in the 2024 American Community Survey.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • The smallest of these specimens measured just two centimeters.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • Researchers quantified the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), a thermal stress index, essentially a feels-like temperature that accounts for temperature, humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and how the human body reacts to the environment, Emerton said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • In a new study, our team of fire and climate scientists looked at two decades of wildfire activity in the West, from 2001 to 2024, and for the first time quantified the effect of heat waves on those fires.
    Mukesh Kumar, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
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“Calipered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calipered. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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