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How to use the word tinker in a Sentence?

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It depends on the individual, if it turns into a distraction more than mindfulness, accountability or behavioral support, then you just want to rework things. You can kind of tinker with things until you find what works.

– Billy Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And it will not protect you from being monitored by your ISP, marketers, and even the government if they decide to spy on you, we believe that the question should be...about Google’s ability and willingness to provide people with tools to actually rule over their privacy. With Google all around us, it is next to impossible for anyone to figure out which Chrome browser, Google account or Android phone privacy settings one needs to tinker [with] to achieve [that] goal.

– Daniel Markuson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's a very elegant solution, and that's why they could go to vaccine trials so quickly, because all they need is a sequence of the virus, they don't have to tinker with the virus to make a vaccine candidate. They can just make a vaccine candidate with genetic sequence of the virus.

– Amesh Adalja

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The allegations in relation to work orders at Tinker Air Force Base and Mountain Home Air Force Base are being taken seriously and are in the process of being investigated.

– Balfour Beatty

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.

– James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

Yes, there is freedom of speech established by Tinker.

– Amy Oberman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Yes, there is freedom of speech established by [The Supreme Court decision] Tinker, but at least in my view, it's a hate crime because a group was targeted.

– Amy Oberman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There is a need to look at the PIB as it was submitted to the sixth assembly and try and tinker with that a bit, there are all kinds of issues ... one of those is whether we need to yank out the fiscal terms and develop them into a different law relying on existing fiscal laws and amend those.

– Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At the end of the day, I think they'd step back from the precipice and just tinker around with the current system, but you never know. We are living in strange times.

– Steven Rosenthal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.

– Leland Stowe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

– Henry Ford

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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