tinkerer

Example Sentences

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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

In contrast to a designer, a tinkerer must, Jacob argued, manage with odds and ends.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

He was a natural tinkerer with an orientation toward real-world problem solving.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

A self-proclaimed tech tinkerer, he prefers using Android phones because the system is more customizable than an iPhone.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 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