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as in twitching
to grasp and move with a small forceful motion
Hey, you tweaked my nose!
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as in adjusting
to make small adjustments to
You can tweak the settings to customize the display. He spent considerable time tweaking the recipe.
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as in mocking
to make (someone or something) the object of criticism, amusement, or laughter
They're always tweaking me about my northern accent.
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Recent Examples of tweaking
But, rather than tweaking the app to address those issues, Color Labs remained focused on signing up more users.
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Harvard Business Review, 27 Aug. 2025
The touch screen can be used with other widgets for switching performance profiles, controlling RGB settings, and tweaking other critical controls.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
The story of the Kim family and their Toronto convenience store blends generational and classic comedy by lovingly tweaking expectations about Korean parenting and stereotypes (Simu Liu cannot keep his shirt on as our first Asian himbo).
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
However, after tweaking her ankles on her floor exercise landings, Roberson opted to compete her simpler Yurchenko vault with a sting mat, incurring an automatic five-tenth deduction for using the extra mat.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Sometimes just tweaking the wiper arms using an adjustable wrench as a tool can quiet the noise and chatter.
—John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2025
Turning Selectivity Into Strategy A range of more discriminating strategies have been explored, including tweaking the shape and timing of electrical pulses and using multi-contact electrodes to maneuver currents in specific directions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
This allows for a large degree of flexibility to do things in software, whether that's changing the handling, tweaking the UI, or boosting power output.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
As reported, the German e-commerce giant aims to seize 15 percent of Europe’s 450 billion euro fashion market by tweaking its B2B and B2C strategies.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
Harvard Business Review, 27 Aug. 2025
The touch screen can be used with other widgets for switching performance profiles, controlling RGB settings, and tweaking other critical controls.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
The story of the Kim family and their Toronto convenience store blends generational and classic comedy by lovingly tweaking expectations about Korean parenting and stereotypes (Simu Liu cannot keep his shirt on as our first Asian himbo).
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2025
However, after tweaking her ankles on her floor exercise landings, Roberson opted to compete her simpler Yurchenko vault with a sting mat, incurring an automatic five-tenth deduction for using the extra mat.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Sometimes just tweaking the wiper arms using an adjustable wrench as a tool can quiet the noise and chatter.
—John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2025
Turning Selectivity Into Strategy A range of more discriminating strategies have been explored, including tweaking the shape and timing of electrical pulses and using multi-contact electrodes to maneuver currents in specific directions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
This allows for a large degree of flexibility to do things in software, whether that's changing the handling, tweaking the UI, or boosting power output.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
As reported, the German e-commerce giant aims to seize 15 percent of Europe’s 450 billion euro fashion market by tweaking its B2B and B2C strategies.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tweaking
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Koberidze opens with a montage of cats, foot traffic, street dogs twitching in their sleep, statues and trees casting long shadows across buildings.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
17 Aug. 2025
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Prater, who was expecting gory details, is a little harder to read, though his face twitching doesn’t seem like a great sign.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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Bus operators are adjusting schedules, while freight companies are warning of significant delays.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Malonga contributed 13 points on efficient 6-of-7 shooting, another reminder of how quickly the 19-year-old is adjusting to the league.—
Grant Afseth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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And in June, a Chicago White Sox fan was ejected from a game and later banned for life after mocking Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte’s late mother during a game.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Giants rookie Abdul Carter belittled the Jets on Sunday while mocking the first lowlight of his NFL career.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
18 Aug. 2025
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Otherwise, the Galaxy Watch 8 has Samsung’s One UI 8 interface on top of Wear OS 6 to put its own spin on interacting with your watch, with support for gesture controls to dismiss an alarm by twisting your wrist or take a picture by double-pinching your fingers.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 Aug. 2025
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Hypernova will ship bundled with an sEMG wristband, codenamed Ceres, that reads muscle signals in the wrist to enable discreet gesture controls such as pinching.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Journalists were involved in every step of the information gathering, review, editing and publishing process.—
Abreanna Blose,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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The production features cinematography by Zamarin Wahdat, art direction by Cyrus Karanjia, editing by Raluca Petre and Alexandra Strauss, and music by Anna Bauer.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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Gunn has been teasing this new feature for weeks, saying that his next project won’t be a direct sequel to Superman, but will feature characters audiences already know from his summer hit.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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The radio host was set to return to his SiriusXM show this morning, after nearly a month of teasing a big reveal surrounding rumors that his show would be canceled.—
Jodi Guglielmi,
Rolling Stone,
2 Sep. 2025
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Weak to light shaking was detected, and people in multiple cities - such as Huntington Beach, Winchester, Menifee and Sun City - reported feeling the tremor, according to the USGS DYFI report.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Homes of political party members and state buildings were ransacked or set ablaze, shaking investor confidence in the Southeast Asian economy and triggering a steep selloff on its stocks and currency markets on Friday.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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Housing experts suggest that modifying zoning laws to permit smaller lot sizes is the most effective approach to developing smaller, affordable homes.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
2 Sep. 2025
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At the highest level, a good story has to reflect its audience while modifying that reflection.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Tweaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tweaking. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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