tinker
Example Sentences
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The oil giant paid the smaller company $320 million over a decade to tinker with the genetic makeup of algae to try to distill enough oil to make the venture technically viable.
And then, as coaches, what we do is we start tinkering.
From BBC
After tinkering more, he landed on a story he liked.
Spalding has all the attributes of a future entrepreneur and loves tinkering with cars.
From Los Angeles Times
They went to bed and I started tinkering around on it and then a bit more, bit more and then that developed into: 'Let's get a piano.'
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
