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Example sentences for: tinkering

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This is still a "beta," meaning that we're still tinkering with it, but we think it's pretty close.
A change in abstraction from "empiricism or trial-and-error tinkering" to theory and the codification of theoretical knowledge "for directing innovation and the formulation of policy."
Tinkering with the existing structure is not sufficient.
Meanwhile, Bush and McCain are tinkering with conservatism in an interesting fashion.
The lower level of the Guggenheim SoHo displays the tinkering side of Rauschenberg's nature, the works he made in collaboration with engineers--the star item there is unquestionably Mud Muse (1968-71), a vat of bentonite (an artificial clay) that bubbles and gurgles and spits, like a pool of quicksand in a Tarzan movie, triggered by a sound-activated compressed-air system.