tooled

past tense of tool
as in drove
to travel by a motorized vehicle I spent some time tooling around town today

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Recent Examples of tooled When the season ended, Payton and general manager George Paton could have re-tooled the personnel on defense or let a couple of key contributors go. Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025 Hayes’ arrangements are machine-tooled to immersive perfection. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
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drove
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  • The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, was said to have intentionally drove into bicycle lanes to strike some of the cyclists, said Christophe Sueur, the mayor of Saint-Pierre d'Oleron.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Periodically, one or two cars drove up for a box of food, but otherwise, all was quiet.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Tooled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tooled. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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