fiddle
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These records feature the fiery jazz-and-blues-infused fiddle playing of Scott Stoneman, a fellow wild seed and veteran of the D.C. bust-heads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He may have played second fiddle behind France team-mate Mbappe in terms of headlines, but the Bayern Munich winger has been at his creative best so far.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
We can’t truly know the ERP unless we know what the market will return, and if we knew that, we wouldn’t have to fiddle with theoreticals about whether we’re being compensated enough.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Without it, the IRS will happily play you like a fiddle.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
The fiddle fig presses against the other wall in the nook, just across from the fern.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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As Sunday night turned into Monday morning, and the strains of fiddles and flutes drifted through the city streets, people hailed the success of Belfast's first ever All-Ireland Fleadh.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The problem was that his series of tweaks and fiddles had turned his team into a barely coherent collection of walking wounded and players lined up out of position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Bro-country hitmaker Jason Aldean debuted in 2005 with “Hicktown,” a single that paired screaming fiddles with distortion-drenched guitars to celebrate the ways single-stoplight towns make their own fun.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
“I just loved it. I loved the music, I loved the tempos of the mandolin and ... I loved the fiddles, too,” Williams says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
She pops the hood, fiddles with some wires, then pulls a toolbox from the trunk.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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For years, the egg has ruled the breakfast table like a sun god—worshipped, aestheticized, endlessly fiddled with by men in starched aprons and women with ring lights.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
Sitting at a park picnic table in Crystal City, Virginia, the morning light casting shadows over his face, Wall fiddled with the strap on his backpack.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
Her positive pablum came too late to stop critics from casting her as a modern-day Nero, the emperor who supposedly fiddled away as Rome burned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
On 99, Atkinson fiddled nervously at Kumara and could have given an edge.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
Alfhercht fiddled with the invisible magic, and even though Anya couldn’t see the threads, she knew what he was doing.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The jubilant rush—“woo hoo,” as she puts it—of music-making is typically followed by a period of obsessive fiddling with production and mixes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Neville is skeptical that businesses will be fiddling around with AI products to create their own cybersecurity.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
She pauses, fiddling with her red-framed reading glasses.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
The ongoing injuries have left Musselman to continue fiddling with his lineup in search of answers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026
He was fiddling with something small and pink, rubbing it back and forth in his hand.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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