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In many of the cases, prosecutors said, the students were not aware that their parents were doctoring their test scores and lying to get them into school.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2019

Even in ’08, people were doctoring his campaign signs to make them say RuPaul.

From Time • Jun. 22, 2012

Analysts, Spitzer would show, were doctoring their reports--which the public relies on for stock information--to win business for their banks' investment arms or to downgrade companies that didn't play ball.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’d say that some of our old time enemies were doctoring the fuel, if it wasn’t that the crowd is off the job after that last drubbing I gave Hall and Wilson,” remarked the fireman.

From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Chapman, Allen

What a long time Dad and the boys were, doctoring Derrimut!

From Mates at Billabong by Bruce, Mary Grant