tinkerer
Example Sentences
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Raised in the Detroit suburbs, Tucker was a tinkerer who founded companies developing race cars and aircraft engines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
We don’t really talk about it, but it has a link to his father, and his father being a tinkerer of old cars and Robby needing a vacation, a hiatus of sorts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
He was a natural tinkerer with an orientation toward real-world problem solving.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2024
A self-proclaimed tech tinkerer, he prefers using Android phones because the system is more customizable than an iPhone.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
One wall was crowded with tacked-up plans and schematics; another was piled high with tinkerer junk; the bench TimeStar occupied was littered with snipped wires, and tools, and computer equipment.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
