tinkered
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As the production fell further and further behind schedule, Mr. Pallenberg frantically rewrote the ending, blithely confessing that he tinkered around with killing off this or that character as the mood struck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
I hit some other bumps in the road as I tinkered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
"Yesterday, two helicopters landed right here. They tinkered with something, then left again," Mathiassen recalled.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
They tinkered with his crossovers and his camel spin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
Over the next few years, he tinkered and fussed obsessively with his ideas—arranging and rearranging “ugly facts” like his fossil specimens, but he never got around to publishing the theory.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
