Example Sentences

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s military had anticipated the attack and had calibrated its response.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

Until Saturday night, Biden had calibrated his words carefully.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2022

In our interview, Sondheim acknowledged that the moment had this subtext, yet denied that he had calibrated the effect; he said he had just followed his musical instincts.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2021

Prior research had calibrated the curve on a decade-to-decade basis; Pearson and Salzer broke it down year by year.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

He had calibrated the unit for jumps of 50,000 years.

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