Change
Change verb - To make different in some way.
Tinker with and change are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tinker with" instead a verb "Change".
Tinker with
Tinker with verb - To handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously.
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- You can also bring more samples to one of your AI helpers so he can tinker with your emitter and change the blast's effects.
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Although they agree not to try and change their own personal lives none of them can resist trying to tinker with events, with varying results.
Source: Butterfly of Doom -
Strangely, they only needed to tinker with one voting machine in one district (And only by 2,000 votes, at that) to change which party won the national election.
Source: Series / Mission: Impossible
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