as in to horse around
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Recent Examples of tinker
For years, James Cook tinkered with a catalytic approach to the tree evaluation problem in his spare time.
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Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 30 Mar. 2025
Fidelity is already tinkering with a stablecoin under its digital assets division, which currently offers custody and trading for bitcoin, ether and litecoin.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
So by signing Banks, the Packers are tinkering with two spots on their offensive line.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
With the team fully healthy, the Seattle native is the seventh man in a rotation still being tinkered with.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
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Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 30 Mar. 2025
Fidelity is already tinkering with a stablecoin under its digital assets division, which currently offers custody and trading for bitcoin, ether and litecoin.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
So by signing Banks, the Packers are tinkering with two spots on their offensive line.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
With the team fully healthy, the Seattle native is the seventh man in a rotation still being tinkered with.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinker
Verb
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Quit horsing around — the Clydesdales are back!—
Breanne L. Heldman,
People.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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In the video, Payne is shown horsing around with a large outdoor crowd and his bandmates, encouraging the fans to quiet their screaming and then raise the volume all the way back up.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Sitting in his idling pickup one afternoon, Sherlock watched as a Canadian Pacific train rumbled by the grain elevator in the small town of Wimbledon.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2025
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Their boat was found idling in circles, sparking a massive search.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
10 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Players dawdled on the ball in key moments, hesitant to make mistakes.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Skelly secured the Obama Administration’s commitment to buy his energy, but in the course of a decade the project slowly collapsed, as state powers dawdled and eventually refused to issue the necessary permits.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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The plan also includes an education center and a café and lounge open to the street.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2025
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Now the steps have planters with juniper bushes on top for aesthetics — and to keep fans from lounging there.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Tinker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinker. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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