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fiddle

verb as in mess with, tinker

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That means any game made for PC is going to work here - even if it takes a bit of fiddling to make it run properly.

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Updike stuck up for himself when faced with the magazine’s intrusively correct fiddling: In 1958 he sent one editor, William Maxwell, an unwavering paragraph against a single word.

Beckett was famously unforgiving when it came to fiddling with his works; his estate would not likely countenance egregious diversions from the “Godot” text.

“The Details” is a crucial moment on the album, an acknowledgment, with a dour fiddle and harp, that communication may be forever broken.

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You simply cannot fiddle around with part-time bowlers for 10 overs; nor can you bowl them very late in the innings.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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