How to Use fine-tune in a Sentence

fine-tune

verb
Definition of fine-tunenext
Synonyms for fine-tunenext
  • Want to fine-tune which apps refresh in the background (and drain your battery in the process)?
    — Simon Hill Brian Barrett, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Now, instead of having months to fine-tune the story, he would be stuck with it at trial.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • As more evidence links static to survival, a story is emerging that evolution may fine-tune the capacity to sense or carry charge just like any other trait.
    — quantamagazine.org, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Mitchell, a former college wide receiver, and Patrick, his then-teammate at Oregon, ran routes and caught passes from their brother Justin to help him fine-tune his game.
    — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Shit’s gotta sit around for a minute … fine-tune it, perfect it.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 July 2023
  • Sh–’s gotta sit around for a minute … fine-tune it, perfect it.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 25 July 2023
  • My brain will be fine-tuned to keeping my glass and tummy full.
    — Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • This takes some trial to fine-tune the time and water required.
    — oregonlive, 15 July 2023
  • The next application would look to fine-tune and strengthen the case for those projects.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • That’s why hotels work so hard to fine-tune their atmosphere with the right playlists.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2024
  • The latter had a food truck, and Smith assisted him in fine-tuning the cuisine for it at the time.
    — Dwight Brown, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The music: Dugar and her team have fine-tuned the restaurant’s playlist, which was the soundtrack for the Diwali dinner, over the past 10 years.
    — Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Each team wanted to fine-tune the AI model for its own domain goals.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 June 2024
  • The lasers are used to fine-tune the telescope’s resolution.
    — Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • Adjustable straps or buckles can help fine-tune your fit as well.
    — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • But first up Tuesday is a case that gives the Justices a chance to fine-tune their guidance to lower courts.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The Air Stratos is comfortable for all-day wear and has an easy-to-adjust dial in the back for fine-tuning the fit on the go.
    — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This journal will serve as a valuable tool in fine-tuning your dose.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Hard Science Why does the Universe appear fine-tuned for life to exist?
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • The brothers began tinkering with the pre-chorus and then fine-tuned the chorus.
    — Mike Wass, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Have you been involved in any effort to train or fine-tune chatbots for legal work?
    — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • The bots find patterns through trial and error, and human feedback is then used to fine-tune the model.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
  • The project captures Monét’s cross-genre singing abilities and the writing skills she’s fine-tuned over her decade-long career.
    — Danielle Kwateng, SELF, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Engineers are trying to fine-tune how tall and steep the barriers should be.
    — Louise Rasmussen and Johannes Birkebaek, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Transit agency staffers will continue to refine and fine-tune the plans for the future rail hub.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
  • In some cases, lawmakers and voters now say those changes needed to be fine-tuned to work well.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a lot of work coming out on different ways to fine-tune the dopamine system instead of just turning it on or off.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • For Lal, the task is making the appropriate tweaks to help fine-tune each receiver.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
  • In fact, the researchers contend that LLMs may not be able to be sufficiently fine-tuned to avoid all of these kinds of attacks in the future.
    — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Weighing out every espresso shot or pot of coffee is one of the best ways to fine-tune your coffee output.
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023

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