- present participle of tool.
tooling
Example Sentences
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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
He and his 25-person team built extensive internal tooling to see if the Chinese open-source model could handle Lindy’s tasks of managing inboxes and calendars, drafting emails, and transcribing meetings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The better the technical tooling, in this case AI agents, the smaller the human teams need to be, said Deepak Singh, a vice president at Amazon Web Services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Sitting down, he lifted the saddle onto his knee and looked close at the silver and the tooling.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
