tinkering

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Huang says she’s looking to build a new system that serves every Angeleno, rather than tinkering with the one that exists.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Bringing chatbots to the drive-through has been an early step in restaurants tinkering with artificial intelligence, and it has had mixed results for customers and brands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

And then, as coaches, what we do is we start tinkering.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

After tinkering more, he landed on a story he liked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

“This is not a system that needs tinkering around the edges, this is a system that is broken almost everywhere you look,” a panel of state-approved correctional experts concluded in 2006.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater