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Recent Examples of tamper
This system must alert your personnel to unauthorized changes or tampering across your scripts and security-impacting HTTP headers.
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Ed Leavens, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
There are 59 picks in this year’s draft, as the Knicks forfeited their 2025 second-rounder following a tampering investigation into their 2022 signing of Jalen Brunson.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Switch to digital payments when possible: Use your bank’s mobile app to deposit checks without mailing or physically delivering them, reducing the risk of theft or tampering.
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—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
District Attorney Rachel Mitchell said Owens has been charged with seven counts of fraud, perjury, forgery and evidence tampering.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
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Ed Leavens, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
There are 59 picks in this year’s draft, as the Knicks forfeited their 2025 second-rounder following a tampering investigation into their 2022 signing of Jalen Brunson.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Switch to digital payments when possible: Use your bank’s mobile app to deposit checks without mailing or physically delivering them, reducing the risk of theft or tampering.
6.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
District Attorney Rachel Mitchell said Owens has been charged with seven counts of fraud, perjury, forgery and evidence tampering.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tamper
Verb
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Reyes was a nice spring training story, but the Yankees were fooled by meaningless February and March stats.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
8 June 2025
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But don't be fooled, as these texts are sophisticated scams designed to steal your personal information or money.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2025
Verb
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The lawsuit argued that the two oil companies were public nuisances, that their pollution was trespassing into the counties, and that their pollution violated the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
12 May 2025
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He was accused of trespassing and ignoring warnings to leave the Delaney Hall facility.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2025
Verb
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The little accents from the electric guitar and fiddle also hit with a satisfying bite and plenty of presence.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
27 May 2025
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On his version of the title song, Coleman plays fiddle as his loft guests sing.—
Robert Sullivan,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
Verb
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Amid President Trump’s threats to start a global trade war, invade Greenland, seize control of the Panama Canal and annex Canada, this story has gone virtually unnoticed: Cuba is going through its worst economic crisis in decades — maybe since the 1959 revolution.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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The conflict began in 2022 when Russian forces invaded Ukraine.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
4 June 2025
Verb
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Apple once owned the premium device space, but competitors are now encroaching on its turf.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
7 June 2025
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At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the industry was awash with buyers, sellers and festival heads chattering about how to come to grips with this new phase of technology that is increasingly encroaching on the traditional space.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
4 June 2025
Verb
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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
Verb
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The next idea, being that the plaintiff should be allowed to voluntarily dismiss the infringing cause of action after the special motion was filed, was similarly rejected.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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The plan isn’t to infringe on the audience who bought tickets a long time ago, insists Clooney.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
Verb
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Sarah Snook, who played Shiv Roy on that HBO drama, was nominated (and went on to win!), following in the footsteps of her costars Jeremy Strong and Keiran Culkin.—
Melissa Locker,
Time,
9 June 2025
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The band then went on to play its way through the rest of the Village, cranking out cartoon theme song medleys between the sets as mostly white kids thrashed in the crowd.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2025
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“Tamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tamper. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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