tooling

Definition of toolingnext
present participle of tool
as in driving
to travel by a motorized vehicle I spent some time tooling around town today

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Recent Examples of tooling Most enterprises do not yet apply to artificial intelligence tooling the spending controls that DevOps teams routinely apply to cloud compute. Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 The pioneering program started with a fleet of black and white robots from Starship Technologies tooling around the campus at the University of Illinois Chicago. Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026 It is equipped with XT-4 tooling such as a full-length Agile Chassis Skeleton, Quicklace closure, and dual density EVA cushioning in the midsole. Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 5 Feb. 2026 Spending a few minutes tooling around on ChatGPT-3’s website, and if not an oracle in silicon, the program is unequivocally able to produce writing at about the level of a B-freshman composition paper. Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026 Once, before kids, my husband and I ponied up for a convertible that was perfect for tooling around sunny Naples. Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2025 Oklahoma ties it again after tooling the Texas block but a Stafford kill gives Texas the lead back. Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 19 Oct. 2025 In the 1960s, Jay Sebring made a giant leap from middle-class Michigan boy and Navy veteran to stylist to the stars, tooling around Hollywood in his Shelby Cobra convertible and jetting off to cut the hair of Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and more. Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
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driving
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  • The critical shipping passage has been a key point of the war, driving up gas prices.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 17 May 2026
  • Schauffele ranks in the tournament’s top five in both putting and driving, and has hit 28 of 42 fairways this week.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 17 May 2026

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“Tooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tooling. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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