tinker
noun
a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
tinkering
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present participleof tinker.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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
And over time, from their tinkering comes their version of right and good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
One moment, Athipat Wichan was tinkering with song ideas off stage while watching his band perform to a packed crowd at a bar in Bangkok.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Instead, he possessed a mind capable of tinkering with things just enough to make them impossibly confusing and himself so dissatisfied with his own intellectual inadequacies that he would never be happy.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
