tinkering
Example Sentences
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But hey—they were going to keep tinkering with things.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
After years of tinkering, Crow-Armstrong—and everyone around him—know the answer for him, no more changes necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Already, McDaniel has done some tinkering and fine-tuning, tweaking Herbert’s footwork out of the shotgun formation to allow him to get the ball out of his hands a fraction of a second earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
This was a persona I'd been tinkering with myself: the outcast, the rebel.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
