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It isn’t all that unusual for players to fiddle with their mechanics over the course of a summer, with more drastic overhauls left to offseason experimentation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

England reached 72-0 in the powerplay, with Bouchier playing second fiddle to Dunkley, who was brutal against Ireland's wilting bowling attack in a 47-ball fifty - her fastest in ODIs.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Anytime Dunk is walking through the village, we should hear a fiddle player playing somewhere,’” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

The company’s main generator of revenue, electric vehicles, often plays second fiddle.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

She crawled into her desk and began to fiddle with the backpack she’d left there the day before, while people whispered around her.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

At Stagecoach, Disco Shark is replaced with Disco Horse, and there are still pulsing beats but also some fiddles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 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 the buttons and dials on the top as I chew my nails.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

Guitars are plucked, fiddles are fiddled, and brows are furrowed as Marcus Mumford navigates his mid-30s, and the reorganisation of friendships and priorities that mid-life brings.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025

Gaunt and weakened by cancer at 42, his father reached for the buttons on Kerr’s shirt, fiddled with them and said something about getting ready to catch the plane to their cabin in the woods.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

Then I fiddled with it until I got the date I wanted.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

"The constant need to keep fiddling to pull them up displays an uncomfortable and unconfident demeanour," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Neville is skeptical that businesses will be fiddling around with AI products to create their own cybersecurity.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

The ongoing injuries have left Musselman to continue fiddling with his lineup in search of answers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

Ninety-nine times out of 100, that means letting shareholders decide with a minimum of bureaucratic fiddling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

I rested my chin on my knee, started fiddling with my shoelaces.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx