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tinker

verb as in fiddle with

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Now, instead of getting ahead that way, marketers that excessively tinker will fall behind and lose ground on the components that need the utmost attention – analytics, first-party strategy, and customer experience.

You could tinker with them so they would boil but then the cops could take it away for being an ‘altered item’.

He could spell the names of all his classmates, and he loved building with Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys.

[Laughs] KROLL: The “Tinker Stinker” I like, in that it felt like a true labeling of something that happens.

More like used tinker toys in a world of killer apps and drones.

Oh, sure, if it would attract a few token Republican votes, they were willing to tinker with the price tag.

For that matter, he said, he didn't care a tinker's dam if we were; he had grub and bedding and we were welcome to both.

Mr. Giles directed an appealing glance at the tinker, but he had suddenly fallen asleep.

Tinker received a scimitar from the hands of Mr. Figgins, and flourished it gaily round his head.

Tinker hopped round him as nimbly as a tomtit or a jackdaw, and presently gave him another little taste of his steel.

But Tinker and his man were not at all put out by these strange demonstrations upon the part of the ladies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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