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tool

[tool] / tul /




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What are other ways to say tool? A tool is a contrivance held in and worked by the hand, for assisting the work of (especially) mechanics or skilled laborers: a carpenter's tools. An instrument is anything used in doing a certain type of work or producing a certain result, especially such as requires delicacy, accuracy, or precision: surgical or musical instruments. An implement is any tool or contrivance designed or used for a particular purpose: agricultural implements. A utensil is especially an article for domestic use: kitchen utensils. 

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MarketWatch: You built an AI tool around one specific investor’s thinking.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

“It’s really about providing a system, a tool, a program to reward them for the work that they’re already doing,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

In response, it launched a tool called Artist Profile Protection in March, which allows certain musicians to review any new additions before they are added to their pages.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Found in southern England, the object is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

And then he stuffed the little electronic device into the robot’s tool belt.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Investors have been pivoting toward high-quality megacap stocks as more companies adopt artificial-intelligence tools.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

As the search indexing of the chat logs is no longer occurring, it is likely Anthropic used available tools to quickly block the chat log links from search results.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

This suggests that computational tools may allow scientists to analyze much larger collections of dreams in a consistent and repeatable way.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

That’s a private customized investment approach designed to reduce losses during market downturns by combining investments in stocks with hedging tools such as options, futures and/or short-selling.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Smithy and Mara were busy sorting the metal slag that they would have to leave behind and the tools they could pack onto the camels.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Even if Congress voted the funds tomorrow for 10,000 new interceptors, the metal and the gas would still have to be found, the workforce trained, and the production lines tooled.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Period satirical adventure comedies with thieves as heroes, tooled with a British or Australian sense of humor.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2024

Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.

From Reuters Aug. 3, 2023

Rowe started back up in July 2020 with a four-episode run of “Dirty Jobs: Rowe’d Trip,” in which he tooled around the country in an RV, and the main show returned in January 2022.

From Seattle Times Dec. 12, 2022

The saddle was just my size with tigers and dragons tooled in swirls.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

"Autonomous, AI-driven offensive tooling is no longer theoretical," it said.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Yet the only reason he’s out here racking up steps by the hundreds on a recent morning is because he was tooling around in his sculpture studio before I arrived.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Enterprise products are currently more likely to opt in to other models with clear controls, compliance tooling, auditability, data-governance guarantees and workflow integrations.

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 2026

In February, global consultancy Accenture reportedly told staff that promotions to top roles would require "regular adoption of AI tooling" and it would be tracking their usage of the AI platform it has developed.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

Sitting down, he lifted the saddle onto his knee and looked close at the silver and the tooling.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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