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Nelson's hobby is tinkering with small appliances.

Tinkering with implies that Nelson is unskilled at his hobby. You want to change the flavor of this sentence to show that Nelson is, in fact, quite skilled at his hobby. Which of the following should you choose to replace tinkering with so that the reader gets the right idea?

A. Selling
B. Fiddling with
C. Repairing
D. Messing with

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User Yensheng
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C. repairing because it implies he can actually fix them and is not only "messing with" them.
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User Mclin
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