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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

It sounded like an orchestra fiddle player trying to play country music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

Despite playing second fiddle for much of the campaign, Trafford was given his England debut last month in the friendly draw against Uruguay.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

In the summer evenings Pa did not tell stories or play the fiddle.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Their songs weave in Irish lilting, set against a lively mix of drums, fiddles, flutes, harps, banjos, cello and concertina - skills honed over years of playing house parties, pub céilís and traditional festivals.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Testing the human animal’s tolerance for plaintive fiddles, wheezy bagpipes, Peter Coyote and the whispery recitations of diary entries, “The American Revolution” is the most Ken Burns-y of Ken Burns series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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

As he told Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” in 1998, “it was fascinating what these guys could do with these banjos and these fiddles and the steel guitars.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Elizabeth fiddles with a clump of hair that’s slipped out of her roller, grimaces at its obstinacy.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Even Mathew Knowles has publicly fiddled with the true name of his diagnosis, opting instead for the not-quite-accurate “chest cancer” and also “male breast cancer,” which falsely implies a masculine version of the disease.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

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

On 99, Atkinson fiddled nervously at Kumara and could have given an edge.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024

He fiddled with the lock inside until he heard it click.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Take, for example, Parton’s great-grandmother, Tennessee, who kept her home open for “singing, fiddling, and buck dancing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Researchers quietly work away, fiddling with parts of the machine.

From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025

I walk over to the sink and try the faucets, and after some fiddling, they spit out some yellowish water—probably straight from the river.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender