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Recent Examples of tooling
The pioneering program started with a fleet of black and white robots from Starship Technologies tooling around the campus at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
It is equipped with XT-4 tooling such as a full-length Agile Chassis Skeleton, Quicklace closure, and dual density EVA cushioning in the midsole.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 5 Feb. 2026
Spending a few minutes tooling around on ChatGPT-3’s website, and if not an oracle in silicon, the program is unequivocally able to produce writing at about the level of a B-freshman composition paper.
—Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
Once, before kids, my husband and I ponied up for a convertible that was perfect for tooling around sunny Naples.
—Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2025
Oklahoma ties it again after tooling the Texas block but a Stafford kill gives Texas the lead back.
—Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 19 Oct. 2025
In the 1960s, Jay Sebring made a giant leap from middle-class Michigan boy and Navy veteran to stylist to the stars, tooling around Hollywood in his Shelby Cobra convertible and jetting off to cut the hair of Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and more.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
It is equipped with XT-4 tooling such as a full-length Agile Chassis Skeleton, Quicklace closure, and dual density EVA cushioning in the midsole.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 5 Feb. 2026
Spending a few minutes tooling around on ChatGPT-3’s website, and if not an oracle in silicon, the program is unequivocally able to produce writing at about the level of a B-freshman composition paper.
—Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
Once, before kids, my husband and I ponied up for a convertible that was perfect for tooling around sunny Naples.
—Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2025
Oklahoma ties it again after tooling the Texas block but a Stafford kill gives Texas the lead back.
—Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 19 Oct. 2025
In the 1960s, Jay Sebring made a giant leap from middle-class Michigan boy and Navy veteran to stylist to the stars, tooling around Hollywood in his Shelby Cobra convertible and jetting off to cut the hair of Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and more.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tooling
driving
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The congresswoman said Rafael had been detained by ICE agents after a routine inspection while driving a commercial cargo truck in Louisiana.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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Tutash Express and Sam Express in the Chicago area were also disqualified, and the Aydana driving school that the trucker involved in the crash attended lost its certification.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Tooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tooling. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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