How to Use recalibrate in a Sentence

recalibrate

verb
  • All of this is just recalibrating to the new risks that are in front of us.
    — Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Much of this week has been spent trying to recalibrate to avoid that.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • People seek out these breaks to process, recalibrate and shake off the gloom.
    — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Still, the system will need to recalibrate to adhere to the new rules.
    — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Go where your heart can exhale and recalibrate.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This is raw, reshaped landscape — the kind of place that recalibrates your sense of scale.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
  • And once it's all done, the dummies will be cleaned off, recalibrated — and ready to crash again.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Second, use nature to recalibrate your body along with your mind.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The trick is to do it gradually, so your body has time to recalibrate.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
  • Deep learning models can even go so far as to recalibrate the whole process in the middle of a print job.
    — Eli David, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Each image recalibrates what feels worthy of my grief.
    — Reem Kassis, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That may clue her in and help recalibrate urgency.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • White space gives your brain room to reset, recalibrate and refocus.
    — Bronwen Sciortino, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That said, there has been at least one instance when the eye tracking seemed to drift and needed to be recalibrated.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Experts agree that pausing is an effective way to recalibrate your state of mind.
    — Danielle Winston, Flow Space, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The best version of Brown might need a stint with Iowa to reset and recalibrate.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • With fewer restrictions, is the plan to recalibrate last year on a larger scale?
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Once the pandemic shut down the live music business, he was forced to recalibrate.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • Now might be a good time for CEOs recalibrate their appetite for risk.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The Padres may want to recalibrate their decibel meter.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Count me among the beer drinkers who think that some hazy IPAs could use recalibrating.
    — Gary Dzen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • San Diego State has a chance to recalibrate its own history, though.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This move would also recalibrate an offense that hasn't fully clicked around Pitts.
    — Cecil Merkerson, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Agents are seeing more price reductions as sellers who had tried match prices of six months ago are having to recalibrate.
    — Amber Bonefont, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
  • By night two sleeping on the mattress, her body started to recalibrate and adjust to the softness.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Yet surely whoever stepped in would need a decent amount of time to readjust and recalibrate, right?
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Let the emotional discomfort guide you, not to run, but to recalibrate.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 20 July 2025
  • When the replicas cost more than the real ones, something needs recalibrating.
    — New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Take a second to reflect and recalibrate.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Neither has been forced to recalibrate under genuine duress.
    — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026

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