tinker

In the past, Newsom has been reluctant to greenlight laws that tinker with the state budget after those fiscal discussions conclude in the first half of the calendar year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

For a long time, I’d watched Paul tinker with the recipe for his perfect relationship.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

But there may be a reluctance to tinker too much with a midfield of McTominay, Lewis Ferguson, Ben Gannon-Doak and Ryan Christie which purred so perfectly, particularly in the first half.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Jasper’s reward was fifty dollars, fifteen of that for the tinker who brought the fugitive to jail.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

As curious gas-station patrons wander in to see what’s behind the secret door, he tinkers with smoke and professional-grade whippers and runs cocktail mixtures through a centrifuge to smooth the texture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

There was this feeling, especially early on, where it felt like we were the tinkers in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024

The only way I see them slipping up here is if he tinkers with his team too much.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024

With the Western Washington food landscape littered with doughnut shops, Vincent tinkers with different flavors to make his sweets stand out.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

John tinkers with the Enigma machine we keep in the room.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

There were several moments over the past decade that forced him to rethink that assumption, and he changed his mind altogether in 2022, as soon as he tinkered with ChatGPT.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Others may have tinkered with edge lines before Dorr, but he used his influence to make them part of everyday life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Along the way, he tinkered with classical music on 1991's Liverpool Oratorio and released a series of dance albums as The Fireman.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

"Yesterday, two helicopters landed right here. They tinkered with something, then left again," Mathiassen recalled.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

I must have tinkered too much wondering how my invisible grandmother, illiterate and dependent on letter writers, could give us candy free.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Their leader, Zack Polanski, says that Burnham's ideas for greater public control over vital services is "just tinkering".

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

And finally, they’ll discuss why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s latest market tinkering has everyone chiming in.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

Although the unnecessary tinkering didn’t damage her truck, other chatbot advice could have.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Far from being a flawless machine, the body reads more like a patchwork of compromises shaped by millions of years of evolutionary tinkering.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

In the country inhabited by the Ka’apor, on the mainland southeast of Marajo, centuries of tinkering have profoundly changed the forest community.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann