tweaker
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Left-arm spinners Matt Kuhnemann and Cooper Connolly were additions to a largely settled 15-man squad, alongside chief tweaker Adam Zampa and part-timer Glenn Maxwell.
From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026
Spin accounted for six of Australia's top seven - spearheaded by left-arm tweaker Ravindra Jadeja's 3-28 - paving the way for their quicks to later deliver the coup de grace.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2023
By bringing “style” into it, Brooks nods to Flaubert’s reputation as a compulsive tweaker, someone who could spend all day reworking a paragraph.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2017
That’s partly because of the seemingly ubiquitous influence of the Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane, the most effective tweaker of hip-hop orthodoxies in the 2000s.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2016
Rowan did as he was told and Scythe Rand passed the tweaker all over his body like some sort of magic wand.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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