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tamper

verb

Definition of tampernext
as in to fool

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Recent Examples of tamper Ole Miss coach Pete Golding basically admitted to tampering, but also, what about Lane? — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026 Ridley's older sister, 55-year-old Bernadette Ridley, is being charged with abuse of corpse, tampering and related offenses. — Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 28 May 2026 More details about the Cavs/The Realest partnership To ensure authenticity, The Realest oversees every collectible item to have patent-pending covert markings and tamper resistant holograms. — Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 Consider due process, tampering due to out-of-control access to court documents, and digitally changing at will. — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for tamper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tamper
  1. fool
  2. trespass
  3. fiddle
  4. invade
  5. encroach
  6. monkey
  7. infringe
  8. play
Verb
  • The second season of The Paper is a sitcom trying to fool itself.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
  • In July, OpenAI said its models were responsible for a cyber incident on another company, while Anthropic’s Claude models were also responsible for cybersecurity incidents, including in one case where Mythos created fake identities to fool humans.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of fool
Verb
  • Israel wages war on childhood because a Palestinian child at play is already trespassing upon the future Israel has reserved for itself.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The Tohono O’odham Nation said that even if construction were contained to the Roosevelt Reservation, driving onto tribal land to access the area still constitutes trespassing.
    — Mikella Schuettler, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of trespass
Verb
  • The original Rowdy Rooster, a slim storefront on a scrappy East Village block, closed earlier this year, menu fiddling notwithstanding.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
  • The Fed's influence on credit and the economy is minimal; credit is produced by real-world productivity, not central bank fiddling.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of fiddle
Verb
  • There is perhaps a subtle critique here, of the predatory instincts of the filmmaker towards their subject, of the desire to invade someone else’s life and shape their reality according to your own will.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2026
  • After Allied forces invaded Normandy, the cover of this magazine was mocked up in Bayeux-style stitching.
    — John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of invade
Verb
  • The necessary debates are only beginning to heat up as AI inexorably encroaches on our daily lives.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Signing Mbappé, who currently plays forward for Real Madrid, signals that On is looking to further encroach into its larger competitors’ territory.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of encroach
Verb
  • 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.
    — Valerie Demicheva and Flora Chang, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2021
  • But this experiment isn't about monkeying around—this a real security and safety hazard, the researchers point out in a new paper.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2020
Definition of monkey
Verb
  • Current legal avenues are also riddled with loopholes, as Big Tech fights them in court, claiming that some laws infringe on free speech.
    — Allyson Kapin, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Masimo won the courtroom battle , as a federal jury in California ruled that Apple did infringe on Masimo's technology and awarded Masimo $634 million in damages.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of infringe
Verb
  • Her Eras show doc lost its awards last weekend, and the Chiefs play the Broncos tonight, but that didn’t stop people from speculating.
    — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The only—passing—exception is the man who plays Calamawy’s young colleague at one point; and his lines seem to be dubbed with the help of AI.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of play

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