tinkering
Example Sentences
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Although the unnecessary tinkering didn’t damage her truck, other chatbot advice could have.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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
In terms of continued tinkering, Vanguard has several possible solutions to this issue, one being even more auto-enrollment and auto-escalation adoption by company plans, so more workers have savings.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
And so the spring passed—me making a fool of myself in class, the herders butting heads with the homesteaders, Ma tinkering up a storm.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
