tinkerer
Example Sentences
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Service stations remained scarce, but gasoline could be purchased at hardware stores, and every town had a tinkerer or two—often a bicycle repairman turned mechanic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
We don’t really talk about it, but it has a link to his father, and his father being a tinkerer of old cars and Robby needing a vacation, a hiatus of sorts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
He was a natural tinkerer with an orientation toward real-world problem solving.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2024
On the second night, he told more tales, and began linking his personal history to his current creative choices as a tinkerer and a fantasist.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
The family then moved back to Britain, where Mack grew up in Aberdeen, and became a scientist, a tinkerer, a great piano player, with a bit of a short attention span himself.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
