I. verb
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History is littered with examples of people tinkering, tampering and then tumbling.
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In the studio, there was time to reflect, to tinker .
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More complex designs presumably require tinkering with Visual Basic scripts.
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Mr Reaves himself likens his operation to tinkering on a Model A Ford with screwdrivers and a pair of pliers.
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The lad tinkered happily with a multi-pronged screwdriver that couldn't possibly work in real life.
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To redesign those three districts, the judges tinkered with the borders of 10 neighboring districts in August.
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To spice up some of their machines, parlor owners have been tinkering illegally with the odds.
II. noun
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Even the tinkers camped nearby were packing up their few belongings and preparing to leave.
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He suddenly remembered her carefully veiled amusement when he had mentioned the tinkers.
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The tinker plainly knew what she was about, because there was not one single piece of junk to be seen.
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We can not do without his cunning, or his tinker friends.