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Example sentences for: adjust

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Because cigarette smoking is such a strong risk factor for mortality, failure to adjust for this adequately can lead to confounding, with the erroneous conclusion that leanness carries increased risk of death.
To understand how individual accounts might affect national saving, it is necessary to examine the first-order effects accounting for how the government might fund the accounts and then to consider how people might adjust their saving in response to a new account program.
In addition, race-specific information was not available, which limited our ability to adjust for race.
It did not adjust its focus even though the intelligence community had gathered intelligence on the possibility that terrorists might turn to hijacking and even use of planes as missiles.
Nevertheless, a major reason for bias with cohort studies is the failure to adjust for all factors related the receipt of intervention and outcome.