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• present participle of tool.

tooling

American  

[too-ling] / ˈtu lɪŋ /

noun

1. work done with a tool or tools; tooled ornamentation, as on wood, stone, or leather.

2. Machinery.

   1. a number of tools, as in a particular factory.

   2. the planning and arrangement of tools for a particular manufacturing process.

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tooling British  

/ ˈtuːlɪŋ /

noun

1. any decorative work done with a tool, esp a design stamped onto a book cover, piece of leatherwork, etc

2. the selection, provision, and setting up of tools, esp for a machining operation

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Etymology

Origin of tooling

First recorded in 1665–75; tool + -ing ¹

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Example Sentences

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tooling

Teng also describes how the hackers used "a self-destruct mechanism that destroyed tooling and traces as they went, making it more difficult for us to trace and investigate".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

At first the hackers used AI to build tooling and infrastructure to host their ransomware attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The biopharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb chose Anthropic’s Claude as its “standard harness” to avoid rebuilding basic infrastructure tooling, according to Greg Meyers, its chief digital and technology officer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Yet the only reason he’s out here racking up steps by the hundreds on a recent morning is because he was tooling around in his sculpture studio before I arrived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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