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Commercial production is increasingly automated and at Tetra Pak engineers are tinkering with a new factory line capable of making a million ice creams a day.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2022

Others are tinkering with their behaviors now, sticking egg timers to shower walls, installing lower-flow shower heads, or turning off the tap while they lather up.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022

After trying out the PitchCom system at Low-A West in the second half of last season, big league clubs are tinkering with the technology during spring training.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2022

Allenby and his wife are tinkering with the idea of a documentary.

From Golf Digest • Feb. 20, 2020

We are tinkering at it all the time; and if it were not 160 so, I for one should decline to be connected with it.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman