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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of recalibrate.

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Examples

  • At a meeting of the city council on September 27, Robert Jackson, chair of the education committee, presided over a "numbers game" explanation for the precipitous decline in this year's student test scores when they were "recalibrated" by the state education department.

    Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Playing the Numbers Game with the Dept. of Ed Joel Shatzky 2010

  • Obama saying a Cambridge cop "acted stupidly" in arresting a black professor in his own home, and the fact that Obama later said he should have "recalibrated" his comments, rather than actually apologizing.

    Suz Redfearn: My Brother Loves Glenn Beck, But I Still Love My Brother 2009

  • We've showed you actual footage of it and how even after being "recalibrated" these machines still continue to flip votes. . .

    vote flipping = election stealing 2008

  • We've showed you actual footage of it and how even after being "recalibrated" these machines still continue to flip votes. . .

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • There were 71,000 jobs "recalibrated" in local education.

    Danny Schechter: Is the Economy "Out of the Woods?" 2008

  • It was a moment that saved his life and "recalibrated" the adrenaline junkie's "personal scale of what it feels like to be hurt" after being pinned alone for five days in the Utah wilderness by a fallen boulder.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Kane said the town "recalibrated" revenue expectations halfway through 2009 and made cuts to match the anticipated drop in revenues.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2010

  • Kane said the town "recalibrated" revenue expectations halfway through 2009 and made cuts to match the anticipated drop in revenues.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2010

  • Kane said the town "recalibrated" revenue expectations halfway through 2009 and made cuts to match the anticipated drop in revenues.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2010

  • You've had DataPath in here for a few quarters now and in each one we've kind of recalibrated down to 21. 5% or so.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

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