tweaked

verb

past tense of tweak
1
as in pinched
to grasp and move with a small forceful motion Hey, you tweaked my nose!

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2
as in adjusted
to make small adjustments to You can tweak the settings to customize the display. He spent considerable time tweaking the recipe.

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3
as in mocked
to make (someone or something) the object of criticism, amusement, or laughter They're always tweaking me about my northern accent.

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Recent Examples of tweaked Rather than doing a literal adaptation, the creators kept the book’s DNA and tweaked the ideas of evil, temptation and power with a contemporary twist. — Annika Pham, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 Generate Music is an AI music generator powered by Adobe’s Firefly Music Model, which contains fully licensed content, and can be synced to video edits and tweaked by creators. — Time Staff, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 District staff returned tweaked versions of those goals and guardrails back to the Board of Managers on Tuesday, and board members had lengthy discussion on how to — or whether to — combine the versions together. — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026 It’s regularly tweaked, but major changes to it like the universal voucher are rare. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 The analysts tweaked their estimates for the industry ahead of earnings. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026 The octave LEDs will now show transposition, aftertouch has been tweaked to feel more responsive, and app connectivity has supposedly been made more reliable. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026 Reaves, who tweaked his ankle in practice, still went through his pregame warmup routine Monday. — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 Spencer Jones, the one who remains, tweaked a hamstring during Friday’s scrimmage but isn’t expected to miss much time if any. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tweaked
  1. pinched
  2. adjusted
  3. mocked
  4. twitched
  5. edited
  6. teased
  7. pulled
  8. modified
Verb
  • Among the trends expected, discounting will be at or near historic high levels, with retailers aware that consumers are pinched by rising prices.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • While higher gasoline prices have pinched drivers, high diesel prices are pressuring consumers more broadly.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of pinched
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  • When compared with millennials at the same age, and adjusted for inflation, Gen Zers' household income is 25% higher and their overall spending is 16% more, according to a PwC analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
    — Megan Sauer, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Real wages, adjusted for inflation, have declined almost every month since the Iran war started, prompting some consumers to dip into savings and rely on credit cards to get by.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of adjusted
Verb
  • The stance has seen Newsom, who warns the passage of Prop 40 could see an exodus of the super rich from California, mocked and dismissed by fellow Democrats.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed mocked Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy on Saturday, commenting on Portnoy's body and athleticism.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of mocked
Verb
  • Just then, Chee Meng’s fishing rod twitched, and the line began to run out.
    — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
  • During the test, Linton jerked and twitched in what prosecutors described as an attempt to fake a seizure.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of twitched
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  • Researchers showed respondents two versions of the same video, one edited by a human, one by AI, without telling them which was which, and asked for a blind preference before revealing anything about how either was made.
    — Muhammad Usman Qamar, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity.
    — Peter Balonon-Rosen, Vox, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of edited
Verb
  • When appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week, the Canadian pop singer teased the single.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Phillip Gong Gong, my grandfather, teased her, chewing the gristly meat and semi-raw cabbage chunks.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of teased
Verb
  • Shohei Ohtani emerged from the visiting dugout at American Family Field with a bat in his hand, and the mass of media members scattered in foul territory up the third-base line shifted his way, pulled by the magnetic force that is Ohtani’s stardom.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • On Wednesday, the Congressional Leadership Fund, the House Republicans' super PAC, effectively dropped its push to boost Tijerina and pulled millions of dollars in ads from the district, a person familiar with the decision confirmed.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulled
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  • The new generation of therapeutic peptides is chemically modified to resist breakdown in the gastrointestinal tract, where traditional peptide drugs degrade before they can be absorbed.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026
  • That makes this galactic trio bad news for MOND, or modified Newtonian dynamics, an alternative to dark matter proposed in 1983 by the physicist Mordehai Milgrom.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of modified

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“Tweaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tweaked. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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