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tool

[tool] / tul /




Usage

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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Brussels is also developing a tool that would support businesses, through funding, to diversify their suppliers in critical sectors.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The findings, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, could provide researchers with another tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change, Stylianou said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Earlier this week, Anthropic hosted a limited giveaway of “Clawd” plushies and stickers — a reference to the pixelated crab logo featured in the Claude Code terminal tool.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Tkatch added that there’s nothing new about using scent as a marketing tool, at least not since the first time “the owner of a restaurant cooked a pie and put it on the top shelf.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

He wanted a more direct tool for betting against subprime mortgage lending.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Since the bloc does not expect significant changes by China, the EU official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was also steaming ahead with preparing new tools.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

I hope they add more agent-like tools in the coming months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Aymara said the Circle of Security course she attended gave her practical tools so she could help her children organise their feelings, take charge when she needs to and recognise when she was becoming stressed.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Airbnb has been using internal AI tools to build and release app features faster, converting more visitors into paid bookings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Michael saw the gears turning in his head, trying to identify what kind of tools they were. “. . . a screwdriver and a wrench, maybe?”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Ever the Angeleno, he tooled around town in a Porsche.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

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

From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023

The show featured the comical misadventures of a quartet that tooled around Los Angeles in a tricked-out Pontiac GTO called the MonkeeMobile and, when they weren’t chasing girls, pursued music stardom.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

The only light was from a single green-glass desk lamp which illuminated little more than the tooled leather surface on which it stood.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

You haven’t seen how, at every step in creating, tooling and staffing a factory, Astra might be stymied into cul-de-sacs that a human helper would repeatedly have to steer it out of.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

This shift is driving investment in capacity and skill-building into precision machining and tooling, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

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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