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  • noun Plural form of tinkering.

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Examples

  • Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's YouBasically a frigid opposite of each alternative cocktail manuscript upon this list, It's Not Me ... isn't a end-product of a unconstrained tinkerings of a cocktail elite, nor is it particularly cocktail in any of a sentiments.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Lily Allen, It's Not Me, It's YouBasically a frigid opposite of each alternative cocktail manuscript upon this list, It's Not Me ... isn't a end-product of a unconstrained tinkerings of a cocktail elite, nor is it particularly cocktail in any of a sentiments.

    The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery admin 2009

  • These tinkerings for the sake of updating tend to introduce anachronisms and kitch of the worst kind. — triebensee

    Paris Journal: A Problem in Updating a Mozart Opera - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • As with all Ellison's tinkerings, it's more about inner space than outer space, as is the case with most half-decent SF.

    Sci-Fi Author Harlan Ellison Wants In On Star Trek 2 | /Film 2009

  • As a lifelong liberal and a distinguished lawyer but always for the defence the authoritarian posturings and legal tinkerings of the 1997 New Labour government, elected with such high hopes, must have broken his heart.

    So Farewell Then Bystander 2009

  • As a lifelong liberal and a distinguished lawyer but always for the defence the authoritarian posturings and legal tinkerings of the 1997 New Labour government, elected with such high hopes, must have broken his heart.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Bystander 2009

  • But his broader point was that innovation would spring from the "inefficient tinkerings" of people with time to kill, rather than from industrial-age efficiency metrics — a principle that has clearly outlasted the boom.

    15th Anniversary: A New Analysis of the New Economy's New Rules 2008

  • Thus men too wise to tolerate hasty tinkerings with our political constitution accept without a qualm the most radical amendments to our biotic constitution.

    Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings 2008

  • But it thrives today on many college campuses, where scholarly rigor often takes a back seat to freakish conjecture -- especially when this serves the ideological goal of reducing great works to the mere tinkerings of "dead white men."

    Beethoven's Summation 2008

  • But his broader point was that innovation would spring from the "inefficient tinkerings" of people with time to kill, rather than from industrial-age efficiency metrics — a principle that has clearly outlasted the boom.

    15th Anniversary: A New Analysis of the New Economy's New Rules 2008

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