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Recent Examples of tooling
During the parade, various NYYC members will be tooling around the Hudson, bobbing among the fleet.
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Paige Darrah, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2026
In addition to high-profile contract decisions regarding stars LeBron James and Austin Reaves, the Lakers are re-tooling the front office and business operations eight months after Dodgers owner Mark Walter officially took over in a historic $10-billion sale.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
Most enterprises do not yet apply to artificial intelligence tooling the spending controls that DevOps teams routinely apply to cloud compute.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
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.
—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
Paige Darrah, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2026
In addition to high-profile contract decisions regarding stars LeBron James and Austin Reaves, the Lakers are re-tooling the front office and business operations eight months after Dodgers owner Mark Walter officially took over in a historic $10-billion sale.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
Most enterprises do not yet apply to artificial intelligence tooling the spending controls that DevOps teams routinely apply to cloud compute.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tooling
driving
Verb
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That’s when Angotti got going, driving a ball over the left-center-field fence.—
Kevin J. Farmer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026
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These reforms stripped the dominant Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) of its historical control of the regional government, driving it into active opposition.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
31 May 2026
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“Tooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tooling. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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