Fix
Fix verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Both words in one sentence
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Percussive Maintenance: The gremlins can fix anything by whacking it with a wrench.
Source: Video Game / Epic Mickey - Engineers fix their stuff by nonsensically whacking it with a wrench.
Source: Toon Physics -
Justified in an episode of NCIS, when computer-averse Gibbs tries to fix the e-mail client on his computer by whacking the monitor with a baseball bat he apparently kept under the desk for just this purpose.
Source: Computer Equals Monitor
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Whacking and Fix. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/whacking
Fix & Whacking. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/whacking>.
Whacking or Fix. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/whacking.
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