tooling

present participle of tool
as in driving
to travel by a motorized vehicle I spent some time tooling around town today

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driving
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  • Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The jury cleared Read of killing O’Keefe, charging her with just drunken driving.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Tooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tooling. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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