as in to fool
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Recent Examples of tamper
By leaning on this blockchain technology for trust, the aggregator gains a robust shield against tampering, ensuring the aggregated proof has a canonical reference point that anyone can independently verify.
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Ayush Gupta, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
After Trump lost the election, the Proud Boys helped spread falsities about election fraud and tampering on social media.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
He is being held in Miami-Dade Pre-Trial Detention Center on second-degree murder, arson and evidence tampering charges.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
Higgins, 44, was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated manslaughter, two counts of vehicular homicide, evidence tampering and leaving the scene of an accident.
—Scott Thompson, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Ayush Gupta, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
After Trump lost the election, the Proud Boys helped spread falsities about election fraud and tampering on social media.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
He is being held in Miami-Dade Pre-Trial Detention Center on second-degree murder, arson and evidence tampering charges.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
Higgins, 44, was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated manslaughter, two counts of vehicular homicide, evidence tampering and leaving the scene of an accident.
—Scott Thompson, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tamper
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Lohse even managed to fool historian Jonathan Petropoulos, who is at the center of the documentary, and spent years investigating Lohse, only to be tricked by him.—
The Editors of ARTnews,
ARTnews.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Was their advocacy for new energy sources just a ploy to fool their constituents and get reelected?—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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But since the day before, one trespassing man would not stop.—
Josh Wood,
The Courier-Journal,
18 Feb. 2025
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Mainstream media outlets, which ordinarily wouldn’t care about a trespassing deer hunter, fixated on the Porta-Potty part and ran with it.—
Phil Bourjaily,
Outdoor Life,
12 Feb. 2025
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The visual for the revamp of the song that adds some country twang and fiddle to the airy pop original that was Carpenter’s first Hot 100 chart-topper opens with the two women cruising down the road in a truck as Dolly, 79, reads the paper and Sabrina serves as her wheel woman.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
14 Feb. 2025
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To celebrate in high style as the U.S. entered the war would be to fiddle while the world burned.—
Laurie Brookins,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Feb. 2025
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First, there are the ones that make it to your intestines after digging into your flesh and invading your organs.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Baltic Sea region is on alert and the NATO alliance has boosted its presence after a series of power cable, telecom and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.—
Reuters,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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At that time, with commercial fishing encroaching on their traditional livelihoods, most people in his town decided to take up piracy, Khamis asserted.—
Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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The researchers hope their study serves as a call to further investigate deep-sea biodiversity in the face of encroaching human activities like industrial fishing and offshore drilling.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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The Bears will be prepared for the environment, but getting that Morgantown monkey off their back will take a lot more than imagined.—
Michael Haag,
Dallas News,
10 Oct. 2022
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With supply running low toward the end of most evenings, savvy bun fanatics don’t monkey around, routinely calling ahead to request an extra skillet of rolls set aside just for them. Ettan.—
Valerie Demicheva and Flora Chang,
San Francisco Chronicle,
26 July 2021
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The Additional Documents will include, among other things, certification that: (a) entry does not defame or invade the privacy of any party; (b) entry does not infringe upon the rights of any third party; and (c) the entry materials submitted are original.—
TIME for Kids,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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And this week, another two dozen Christian and Jewish groups filed a separate suit, arguing that the new policy infringes on religious freedom.—
Kimmy Yam,
NBC News,
15 Feb. 2025
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Players who for years were starved for the chance to play meaningful games on behalf of their country now would be able to face-off for international bragging rights.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC News,
21 Feb. 2025
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With the ink barely dry on a bombshell deal that hands Amazon MGM Studios creative control over James Bond, Jeff Bezos is already canvassing fans about who should play 007.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Tamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tamper. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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