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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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The only need he expressed for it was as a fundraising tool for his Tibetan government in exile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The researchers hypothesize that the agents were using the tool to get around restrictions on their web browsing, for instance to access websites that have blocks against automated access.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"We show that a well-established tool from studies of the Milky Way can be used to understand other galaxies, where measuring the distribution of dark matter has traditionally been very challenging," says Julie Kiel Holm.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

He called for "national and international" AI standards on measuring the capabilities of an AI tool, assessing related risks, AI safeguards, and the degree to which human oversight over such tools is maintained.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

It was even better than she had hoped for: It was a big, beautiful, strong panga, the perfect tool for cutting mutarara branches.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

In corporate speak, all this information is actionable, and Unmanned Systems Forces uses tools, including an internally developed, closed artificial-intelligence system, to crunch through it quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

He announced the launch of “Smithsonian Cares,” a digital resource that would “provide tools and guidance to empower and inspire conversations about diversity, equity, access and inclusion.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

But generative AI tools are making it faster and easier for anyone to create false representations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the measures as "common-sense tools that do not divide but really help to integrate".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Stop standing there like a fool and give the tools to Yao!”

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

As the smoke piled in, Lake Arrowhead resident Doug Roath tooled around town on his bicycle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

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

An accomplished leatherworker, Franz taught Alex the secrets of his craft; for his first project McCandless produced a tooled leather belt, on which he created an artful pictorial record of his wanderings.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The biopharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb chose Anthropic’s Claude as its “standard harness” to avoid rebuilding basic infrastructure tooling, according to Greg Meyers, its chief digital and technology officer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

But he warns that if training becomes too narrow, apprentices can end up lacking a proper understanding of materials, methods, tooling, quality and process.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

Beyond the model, Scaled Cognition has also built a platform for enterprise AI deployment that includes agentic tooling, live agent monitoring and simulation and evaluation frameworks, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The lights of the cars tooling up the ramp blinded us as we shuffled backwards through the snow that had started falling, like, two minutes after we’d left Delaney’s in our lightweight concert garb.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx




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