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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tinker.

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Examples

  • KSU coach Doug Martin tinkered with the playbook by putting in the pistol offense in the spring.

    Around the Mid-American Conference 2010

  • Bradford: Researchers have "tinkered" to find RNA catalysts that would mimick the function of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • Researchers have "tinkered" to find RNA catalysts that would mimick the function of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • She wrote poetry, publishing several books, and "tinkered" in the stock market to the point she became proficient at investing.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • She wrote poetry, publishing several books, and "tinkered" in the stock market to the point she became proficient at investing.

    Poetic Obituaries: Ann Roznovsky, community relations Rus Bowden 2006

  • Liebenberg had only "tinkered" with the destructive impact which fiscal drag had on ordinary middle-income people who would be required to find an additional R7 billion in personal income tax.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Liebenberg had only "tinkered" with the destructive impact which fiscal drag had on ordinary middle-income people who would be required to find an additional R7 billion in personal income tax.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Liebenberg had only "tinkered" with the destructive impact which fiscal drag had on ordinary middle-income people who would be required to find an additional R7 billion in personal income tax.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • I have "tinkered" it by adding the two syllables "and clear" to make the line complete.

    The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

  • Only after all of this did you then claim that your Twitter account had been "tinkered" with.

    New Statesman Samira Shackle 2010

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