tinkered
Meaning
of Tinker
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As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.
It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.
Among the tales told about Gates is that while working on school computers, he tinkered with programming to put himself in classes made up mostly of girls.
Against Clemson, Norman tinkered with his first-team line-up to spark some more offensive production.
Instead of studying law, he tinkered with mechanical gadgets.
And it's tinkered with ever so slightly for the movie version of the story.