fine-tunes

verb

present tense third-person singular of fine-tune
as in adjusts
to make small changes to (something) in order to improve the way it works or to make it exactly right fine-tune a TV set fine-tune the temperature of the room They're fine-tuning interest rates to achieve economic growth without inflation.

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Recent Examples of fine-tunes It fine-tunes how your iPhone works, sounds and protects your information. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025 Each new Songmont model undergoes wear testing; the brand fine-tunes and iterates its prototypes based on customer feedback. — Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025 Victor fine-tunes his research, and eventually succeeds in bringing to life a patchwork man of superhuman strength, put together with body parts plucked from corpses left behind on a battlefield. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fine-tunes
  1. adjusts
  2. regulates
  3. puts
  4. adapts
  5. matches
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  • The utility adjusts the rates based on its costs before billing customers.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The city typically requests these bonds every two years but adjusts the prices.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of adjusts
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  • The medications work by blocking certain chemical messengers in the part of the brain that regulates body temperature and manages sleep/wake cycles, according to the guidance.
    — Shannon Firth, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
  • That finding is now being read against a parallel body of research on circadian rhythm, the 24-hour internal clock that regulates eating, sleeping and other physiological processes.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of regulates
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  • In big cities, people like this tend to pay rent, which often puts them—to borrow some Marxist terminology—in an antagonistic relationship with the local petite bourgeoisie.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • As Hal puts it the next morning, the chilling effect is very effective.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of puts
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  • Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji and Callina Liang star in the movie that adapts the Capcom video game centering on a combat tournament.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The bike also adapts to individual riding styles and personalizes pedal-assist in real time, and its body is modular so users can easily swap its seat and wheels to accommodate cargo or different terrain.
    — Charlotte Hu, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of adapts
Verb
  • Shift workers, night owls or anyone running late schedules may feel better with a midday or early afternoon session that matches their own rhythm.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • No new date was set to decide whether the city or county, or some collaboration between the two, will run the database that records contacts with homeless people and the system that matches people to housing.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
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“Fine-tunes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fine-tunes. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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