as in to horse around
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Recent Examples of tinker
Bengen himself continues to tinker with the 4% rule.
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Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
Rather than trying to tinker with your spending to optimize your savings rate, pick a flat percentage of your income — Benz says 15% is a good target — and set that money to automatically come out of each paycheck to be put toward financial goals.
—Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2025
As an adult, his family wrote, Messerly was a hard worker, a skilled chef, and loved to tinker.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
So instead of the usual process where officials tinker with last year’s budget to find savings, city officials would start from scratch in at least some departments.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
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Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
Rather than trying to tinker with your spending to optimize your savings rate, pick a flat percentage of your income — Benz says 15% is a good target — and set that money to automatically come out of each paycheck to be put toward financial goals.
—Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2025
As an adult, his family wrote, Messerly was a hard worker, a skilled chef, and loved to tinker.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
So instead of the usual process where officials tinker with last year’s budget to find savings, city officials would start from scratch in at least some departments.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinker
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In April 2020, Iglesias shared a video of him horsing around with Lucy and Nicholas as the pair attempted to climb on his back for a ride.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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At this point in time, my little AI company, a lean and mean group of passionate believers, is horsing around fine-tuning the product, living on a couple of angel investments, where a 10X return on few million dollars is very satisfying, not only to the angel, but also to the employees.—
Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Oct. 2025
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Later, the women were in a idling vehicle when Brown allegedly left his Jeep, walked toward them and fired at the car, court records show.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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David McNew / Getty Images Marquez helped convert Pasadena's fire fleet to renewable diesel fuel so that his crews wouldn't keep breathing in the emissions from idling trucks.—
Kara Finnstrom,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Flight attendants turned into drill sergeants, barking at passengers who flouted mask rules or dawdled too long eating that snack with the mask off.—
Thomas Black,
Twin Cities,
21 Dec. 2025
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My request to ownership is don’t dawdle.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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They can easily be transitioned from lounging at home to a street-ready outfit or casual traveling, as the stripes can be mixed and matched with a wide range of tops like blazers, denim jackets, and simple tees—all without looking sloppy.—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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This chair makes an ideal lounging spot for reading or watching television, thanks to its supportive foam construction.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Tinker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinker. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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