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
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
Saker is more a strategist than a tweaker of technique and differs from his predecessor Ottis Gibson, to whom Broad is especially close.
From The Guardian • May 13, 2013
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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