Futzing

Part of that futzing is pulling and loosening the Velcro and shifting parts of the halo. ❋ Edgreen86 (2006)

That is, if the futzing is abstracted from the point of sale in better maintenance, beautiful displays (like Harrod’s at the high end), then you see higher sales. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(such as a version of the World Wide Web and the idea of futzing with old movies using new computer graphics). ❋ Unknown (2009)

*** On a recent night, Joe was futzing around on the computer as I sat at the kitchen table, cutting out construction paper hearts that our two young children will douse with glue and glitter and give to their friends. ❋ Katherine Rosman (2012)

I did a little futzing with the staples in the private kitchen, making sure there would always be diet soda and horseradish for me in the fridge, way in the back where it wouldn't be noticed. ❋ Sybil Adelman Sage (2012)

VanLoo's documentary, Meredith Monk: Inner Voice, accomplishes the rare feat of capturing a multidisciplinary artist's creative process on film as she documents Monk futzing around with sound and movement at home, in dance studios, during rehearsals, and with friends. ❋ George Heymont (2011)

Millions of dollars hang on the question, since airlines lose money each time a flight is delayed by people futzing with carry-ons. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Writing: I'm futzing about in two worlds - Shayara and the world of "Cicatrix". ❋ Niftybabe313 (2009)

Some are incensed that Brooklyn's most Brooklyny Jonathan is futzing around with other zip codes, but perhaps the greater betrayal is that Lethem left the city he so diligently canonized. ❋ Huffington Post (2010)

Here, narrative games includes super linear games like CoD4 AND games with a malleable narrative like Deus Ex or Fallout, but not games where the main draw is futzing with a ruleset, such as the way most people play GTA outside of the missions or games like Noby Noby Boy. ❋ SVGL (2009)

In the time I spent futzing with the gizmo, any animal down range would run away. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Back at the condo, it's been maybe 15 minutes and I'm still futzing around with my tie. ❋ Joseph M. Owens (2011)

While there he notices a flyer for a lecture about Dickens at a book fair in London, where, per chance, the French reporter is doing a signing for her new book on life after death, which she was inspired to write after an hour and a half of futzing around with her mundane reporter's job distracted by her experience with the hereafter in the tsunami. ❋ Michael Shermer (2010)