tampered

past tense of tamper

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tampered
Verb
  • The throw is crafted with acrylic, but don’t be fooled by its price; the intricate, woven yarn resembles that of chenille, with a buttery-smooth texture that feels luxuriously soft to the touch.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Either way, somebody’s getting fooled.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Communities across the globe probably independently fiddled their way towards the invention of proto lip balms over and over.
    Mark Hay, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Indonesia invaded Timor-Leste just a week after Portugal withdrew, leading to almost a quarter-century of occupation marked by severe human rights abuses.
    Angelica Ang, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Putin invaded a sovereign nation.
    Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The ads have now encroached into social media without proper disclosures with many online pharmacies not following the same rules that many pharmaceutical companies follow, a senior White House official said.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • From the deadly 2025 Los Angeles fires to the devastating 2019-2020 Australian bushfires and the 2018 wildfire in Athens, Greece, flames have increasingly encroached upon human settlements, claiming lives and livelihoods.
    Seyd Teymoor Seydi, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • More than two years after the fatal shooting, Lorincz maintained her side of the story that the kids had trespassed on her property and threatened her life.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The suspect is also believed to have trespassed at a property on Ute Creek Road in Idaho Springs on Thursday morning, Denver7 reported.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Not in any explicit way—my father wasn’t the cranky, alcoholic ex-minor league baseball player who drove around Los Angeles with his pool cleaning equipment in the back of his Cadillac convertible played by Matthau.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Verma played a key role in setting the Proteas a challenging target after the final was delayed by two hours because of rain.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Tampered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tampered. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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