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tweak
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tweak as in:  tweaked the engine

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  • It was an elegant concept, said Crake, though it still needed some tweaking.†  (source)
  • It spent several minutes tweaking its feathers with its beak, exposing soft down.†  (source)
  • Tweaky, pokey!†  (source)
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  • The power failure had tweaked a deep chord in me, making me feel as if I'd lost a sense, as if I was blind or deaf without the hum of the machines.†  (source)
  • Iranians in America have had to tweak this tradition a bit.†  (source)
  • Roshaneh and Sadaffe spent their first few years tweaking the business model.†  (source)
  • I could swear it tweaks its angle to raise my elbows higher.†  (source)
  • They stay inside most of the time, aside from occasional wild-eyed treks to the laundry room—darting across the gravel parking lot with their clothes in trash bags, some sort of tweaky spring cleaning.†  (source)
  • Tally tweaked the eye-shape parameters, pulling the arch of the eyebrows down almost to normal.†  (source)
  • ' " I gives her little snout a tweak.†  (source)
  • The buxom red-haired innkeep howled with pleasure at the sight of them, then promptly set to tweaking them.†  (source)
  • It's basically the recipe on the back of chocolate chips with a few tweaks, such as adding a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon to the dry ingredients.†  (source)
  • Alby reached down and tweaked the boy's ear.†  (source)
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Tweak = untracked word in this novel
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