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as in device
an article intended for use in work
needed a special tool to open the case of the appliance
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as in sucker
one who is easily deceived or cheated
you're just a pathetic tool of the advertising industry if you believe everything you see in TV commercials
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Recent Examples of tool
Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
The film’s warm tones take the form of a mid-2000s orange wash, harkening back to a time when digital color correction was the hot new tool, but action filmmakers hadn’t quite figured how to modulate it.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 July 2025
Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Apr. 2025
For example, in tooling there’s Vertex and Firebase for professional developers and Agentspace for the no-code development environment.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Noun
And in fact, that VFX sequence was completed 10 times faster than it could have been completed with visual, traditional VFX tools and workflows.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
The film’s warm tones take the form of a mid-2000s orange wash, harkening back to a time when digital color correction was the hot new tool, but action filmmakers hadn’t quite figured how to modulate it.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 July 2025
Verb
That tablet can be swapped from tool to tool as necessary.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Apr. 2025
For example, in tooling there’s Vertex and Firebase for professional developers and Agentspace for the no-code development environment.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tool
Noun
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As The Verge points out, the device only comes packed with a single Thunderbolt 5 cable, and no included PSU (power supply unit) like previous Razer eGPU models.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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The devices are considered imperative to reactor safety, according to the Energy Education project at the University of Calgary.—
Arpan Lobo,
Freep.com,
26 July 2025
Noun
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The suspect is also wanted in Massachusetts for allegedly stealing guns from a pawn shop in February 2025, Tisch said.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
20 July 2025
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United Communities is pro-development but wanted deed restrictions to prevent the opening of liquor stores, pawn shops, and tattoo shops.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 July 2025
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Like these rich men, Luthor embraces his villainy by styling himself as a sleek anti-hero and lording his privilege over the rest of society’s suckers.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
16 July 2025
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Check the main vine and secondary shoot regularly for new suckers and remove them promptly.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
5 July 2025
Verb
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That in turn drove low wages for workers, high staff turnover and limited capacity for children.—
Rachel Wegner,
The Tennessean,
26 July 2025
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Generics have higher margins but are vulnerable to pricing shifts and require considerable volume to drive profits.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
25 July 2025
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Some instruments were not in their standard positions, and these were not buttons that could be jostled out of place by an explosion: They were made to be handled by human fingers, which is apparently what happened after the blast.—
Alice George,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 July 2025
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So Goodloe plugged in a Gibson 335, an instrument associated with Chuck Berry.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
16 July 2025
Noun
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Microsoft also has a consensus target of roughly $525, reflecting more than 4% upside potential.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
15 July 2025
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As things stand, Díaz could be the latest target Bayern fails to sign this summer.—
Manuel Veth,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
Verb
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Yet, Yandy Diaz and the Rays’ offense have been motoring along at a rapid clip during a 22-9 run that has improved their overall mark from 21-26 to 43-35 and within 2.5 games of the Yankees in the American League East.—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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But while motoring out in the dark that morning, Pebley, 42, noticed that the throttle on his surface drive motor had started to stick.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
26 Feb. 2025
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In a 1998 essay for The New Yorker, the author Arthur Miller described urbanites’ Depression-era coping mechanisms: People caught the breeze on open-air trolleys, climbed onto the back of ice trucks, and flocked to the beach.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
26 July 2025
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Replace people with mechanisms to drive labor costs down and profits up.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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“Tool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tool. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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