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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tinker .
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Examples
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KSU coach Doug Martin tinkered with the playbook by putting in the pistol offense in the spring.
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Bradford: Researchers have "tinkered" to find RNA catalysts that would mimick the function of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.
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Researchers have "tinkered" to find RNA catalysts that would mimick the function of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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