- present participle of tool.
tooling
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The arrival of AGI, in his view, began last November with Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 and progressed with so-called tooling from Anthropic and other labs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
In short order, I was tooling around the neighborhood with something approaching skill.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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