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Recent Examples of tooling
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.
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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
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 Weather Service warns that poor visibility and slick roads could make driving a bad idea.—
Caroline Silva,
AJC.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Sombr’s rendition strips the track back emotionally while reshaping it sonically, layering distorted vocals and a driving indie-rock pulse over the song’s core melody.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Tooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tooling. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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