FINE-TUNES Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

fine-tunes

verb

present tense third-person singular of fine-tune

as in adjusts

to make small changes to (something) in order to improve the way it works or to make it exactly right fine-tune a TV set fine-tune the temperature of the room They're fine-tuning interest rates to achieve economic growth without inflation.

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Recent Examples of fine-tunes It fine-tunes how your iPhone works, sounds and protects your information. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025 Each new Songmont model undergoes wear testing; the brand fine-tunes and iterates its prototypes based on customer feedback. — Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025 Victor fine-tunes his research, and eventually succeeds in bringing to life a patchwork man of superhuman strength, put together with body parts plucked from corpses left behind on a battlefield. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Aug. 2025

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Start slowly, beginning every other day and gradually increasing to daily as skin adjusts.

— Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2026
The strap adjusts to your waist size, and the pouch itself features three drop pockets for easy organization.

— Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of adjusts

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Hundreds of those grants were later reinstated when a federal judge ruled that the slap-dash nature of the terminations violated the Administrative Procedures Act, which regulates how agencies are supposed to change policies.

— Anil Oza, STAT, 17 Sep. 2026
And pets aren’t the only thing Cedarfield regulates, its covenants also prohibit residents from drying or airing clothing and bedding outdoors except in areas approved by the HOA board.

— Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of regulates

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The exit poll from Germany’s public broadcaster puts the AfD on 38%, just two weeks after the party had its best result yet in Saxony-Anhalt.

— Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026
However, going down to 0-2 puts a team at a really big hole to start the year and make the playoffs.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of puts

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Hailing from PlayStation Productions, the Helldivers project adapts the 2015 game and its sequel that have collectively sold more than 12 million units.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
Wang’s film adapts Tanizaki Junichiro’s novel of the same name, relocating the story to present-day Tokyo, with Fan starring opposite Lily Franky and Kudoh Youki.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

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