- present participle of tool.
tooling
Example Sentences
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Facing uncertain demand, industry has little incentive to invest in plant, tooling, suppliers or workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“Source Foundry tackles the tightest bottleneck: tooling for semiconductor manufacturing, starting in lithography.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But he warns that if training becomes too narrow, apprentices can end up lacking a proper understanding of materials, methods, tooling, quality and process.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Yet the only reason he’s out here racking up steps by the hundreds on a recent morning is because he was tooling around in his sculpture studio before I arrived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The lights of the cars tooling up the ramp blinded us as we shuffled backwards through the snow that had started falling, like, two minutes after we’d left Delaney’s in our lightweight concert garb.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
