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Recent Examples of tamper
What happened to Krystal Lee Kenney? After agreeing to a plea deal to testify against Frazee, Kenney was sentenced to three years in prison for evidence tampering.
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Caroline Blair, People.com, 30 Aug. 2025
With components sourced from dozens of countries, AI hardware and firmware are prime targets for tampering.
—Yuriy Bulygin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
In 1967, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted of jury tampering, fraud, and using pension funds to pay mobsters in exchange for kickbacks.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2025
Widmer was found guilty at his first trial, but the conviction was overturned because of juror tampering.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 31 July 2025
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Caroline Blair, People.com, 30 Aug. 2025
With components sourced from dozens of countries, AI hardware and firmware are prime targets for tampering.
—Yuriy Bulygin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
In 1967, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted of jury tampering, fraud, and using pension funds to pay mobsters in exchange for kickbacks.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2025
Widmer was found guilty at his first trial, but the conviction was overturned because of juror tampering.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tamper
Verb
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Super blue moons can also occur, but don’t be fooled by the name.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
6 Oct. 2025
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But don't let the name fool you — this Matlock isn't a straight remake of the '80s legal drama starring Andy Griffith.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
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During the 2022 incident, an unknown person motioned toward Newton to arrest Mitchell for trespassing.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
30 Sep. 2025
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Denver7 reported that authorities had received three reports of a suspicious person trespassing on private properties along State Highway 103 this week, including two properties on Peaceful Valley Lane in Idaho Springs on Monday.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
26 Sep. 2025
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But in private, Arthur advises her to exercise a little more discretion in her, um, fiddling.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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As Rossini stowed her purse in a tiny back office, a manager named Katie Atlas was onboarding a new employee, a young woman who fiddled nervously with her necklace.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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On October 7, 2023, as a terrorist army invaded Israel intending to commit genocide against the Jewish people, many world leaders rightly condemned Hamas’ murder, rape, and slaughter of Israelis and foreign nationals.—
Ofir Akunis,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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The atmosphere of a Gothic novel creeps over you; encroaching mist along the outcroppings.—
Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
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The screen’s bulk and curvature strain outward to encroach upon viewers, who watch from tiered bleachers enclosed on three sides by a chain-link fence.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The Bears will be prepared for the environment, but getting that Morgantown monkey off their back will take a lot more than imagined.—
Michael Haag,
Dallas News,
10 Oct. 2022
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With supply running low toward the end of most evenings, savvy bun fanatics don’t monkey around, routinely calling ahead to request an extra skillet of rolls set aside just for them. Ettan.—
Valerie Demicheva and Flora Chang,
San Francisco Chronicle,
26 July 2021
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Lawyers for the city of Chicago and state of Illinois have argued that the deployment of National Guardsmen will decrease public safety, exacerbate tensions in the city and infringe on the state’s sovereignty.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
9 Oct. 2025
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Studios are collectively calling out OpenAI over Sora 2 for generating characters that infringe on their copyrights.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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Trump played a role of his own in applying pressure.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Oct. 2025
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Pratt plays Detective Chris Raven, a man who programmed an artificial intelligence called Mercy, which Los Angeles courts are using to determine guilt.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Tamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tamper. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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