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tool

[tool] / tul /




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What are other ways to say tool? A tool is a contrivance held in and worked by the hand, for assisting the work of (especially) mechanics or skilled laborers: a carpenter's tools. An instrument is anything used in doing a certain type of work or producing a certain result, especially such as requires delicacy, accuracy, or precision: surgical or musical instruments. An implement is any tool or contrivance designed or used for a particular purpose: agricultural implements. A utensil is especially an article for domestic use: kitchen utensils. 

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Exercise may not be the most powerful tool for losing weight, but it could help sustain hard-earned weight loss.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

According to CME Group’s FedWatch tool, traders are now pricing a 65% probability that the Federal Reserve will leave rates unchanged at its next meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Stihl, a power tool manufacturer headquartered in Germany, aims for battery-powered equipment to make up 35% of its sales by next year, and 80% by 2035.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Personally, I would recommend bringing a mechanic’s tool set.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

But Nate and Papa figured out that strange new tool pretty quick.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

McMahon said schools should monitor whether AI tools actually improve student outcomes and remove those that don’t.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

New tools in neuroscience have allowed researchers to manipulate the activity of specific neurons in mice brains.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Over plates of fried fish at lunchtime or sitting on the back deck after dark, campers swapped tips on how they’re integrating agentic tools into their own workflows.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Police searching the neighbouring massage parlour found a hole being dug through an adjoining wall into the jewellery store, along with bags of tools.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

He returns with an open wooden box, like a rectangular bucket, and it’s got a bunch of old tools in it.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Even if Congress voted the funds tomorrow for 10,000 new interceptors, the metal and the gas would still have to be found, the workforce trained, and the production lines tooled.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

As the smoke piled in, Lake Arrowhead resident Doug Roath tooled around town on his bicycle.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2024

Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.

From Reuters Aug. 3, 2023

The bank's agriculture relationship managers were being tooled up with advice on how to reduce emissions down on the farm, she said.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2023

The only light was from a single green-glass desk lamp which illuminated little more than the tooled leather surface on which it stood.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

"Autonomous, AI-driven offensive tooling is no longer theoretical," it said.

From BBC Jul. 22, 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

Enterprise products are currently more likely to opt in to other models with clear controls, compliance tooling, auditability, data-governance guarantees and workflow integrations.

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 2026

At a sprawling factory in Louisville, Ky., where Ford used to build gas-powered SUVs, crews are working to set up tooling and the new trio of assembly lines to build the EV.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

It was November 1982, and I was tooling down Virginia State Route 460 in my green 1972 Volkswagen at four A.M.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride




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