TAMPERS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

tampers

verb

present tense third-person singular of tamper

as in fiddles

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The contract model means that when Congress fiddles, it isn’t impacted.

— The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 22 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Congress fiddles while structural defects in Medicare and Social Security threaten to engulf the programs.

— Editorial, Boston Herald, 12 Oct. 2025

Definition of fiddles

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Damage is often concentrated in the lower areas of the plant, as Verticillium invades hosts from their base, working upwards.

— Emily Leahy, Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2026
Cover the Soil Like other weeds, ragweed is opportunistic and quickly invades areas of bare soil.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of invades

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When your disease management vendor identifies a high-cost case and intervenes, there’s a clear before and after.

— Neepa Patel, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Check the basket capacity, expected flight duration, cancellation and refund policy, and whether the operator will rebook you if weather intervenes.

— Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of intervenes

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Beyond serving as an incentive and accountability mechanism in the human academic research ecosystem, there are commercial incentives for discovery, and credit plays a different role in that setting.

— Jeffrey S. Flier, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Park Hae-il plays the head of a newspaper’s social affairs desk, and Lee Min-ho a rookie reporter.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of plays

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If a person interferes or one step fails, the system can adjust its plan and retry rather than requiring the entire task to be restarted.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
But as China’s 2018 detention of two Canadian citizens after Canada arrested a Huawei executive showed, the party readily interferes in the legal system when important interests are at stake.

— Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of interferes

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