Definition of "recalibrated" [recalibrated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of recalibrate. (verb)

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