Words similar to tweaking

Example sentences for: tweaking

How can you use “tweaking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If Nick is right, as he surely is, that the cops are driven to bust more non-criminals in order to keep their arrest numbers up, isn't it just a (non-simple) matter of tweaking the incentivization scheme?
That decision will be based more on your technical facility than on your notions of what material you want your kids to see, because the programs vary much more in their dependence on parental tweaking than on their approaches to excluding material.
Apple Computer's "Think Different" advertising campaign may have a more lasting impact on the language than any tweaking of the 1040 form.
Quibbling over such syntax may seem trivial, but language is so often a dormant phenomenon that it is worth tweaking its tail on occasion.
This gentle Star Trek spoof strikes a chord; it's "a fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The film's premise: A group of middle-aged actors from a long-canceled space show get "spacejacked by naive aliens in need of protection" who mistook the program for a historical document (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The result is campy, goofy, and "funny without being flip" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an interview with Sigourney Weaver about her character in the movie.)