tampering

present participle of tamper

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tampering
Verb
  • But in private, Arthur advises her to exercise a little more discretion in her, um, fiddling.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The party that fails this test will be remembered — if at all — as the one fiddling while Rome was automated.
    Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Only, Brown isn’t fooling himself.
    Janis Carr, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of fooling millions of people individually, attackers need only to compromise one AI model to reach millions at once.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The atmosphere of a Gothic novel creeps over you; encroaching mist along the outcroppings.
    Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Bogard ventured to Chile to see how light pollution is encroaching on astronomy and changing our sense of place in the universe, perhaps irrevocably.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Even setting aside its usual criticisms (antisocial, privacy-invading, a bad omen for human connection), the necklace simply didn’t work as advertised.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The invading parasite is a culture of hate and paranoia and sadism — mass hysteria as sanctioned by the government that is supposed to protect you.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During the 2022 incident, an unknown person motioned toward Newton to arrest Mitchell for trespassing.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Its return is part of the 2026 Banana Ball World Tour and the launch of the Banana Ball Championship League, with all six league teams playing a 60-game schedule culminating in the Banana Bowl Championship next October.
    Shane Connuck October 9, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2025
  • After close to two decades had been spent playing professional football, mainly in the EFL, there was no clarity on what would come next when retirement came to his door.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In those intervening 35 years, China had moved 800 million rural peasants — living in extreme poverty on US$2 a day — into city apartments and integrated them into the global economy.
    Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The intervening two years have only brought more pain and bloodshed throughout the region.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Tampering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tampering. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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