fiddle

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

Mondelez says it has not been fiddling with the recipe, at least not recently.

From BBC

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

From Barron's

I’m not entirely sure how to take that, so we ride in silence for a couple blocks as I fiddle with my backpack’s zipper pulls.

From Literature

Art’s global history before the Second World War continues to play a decided second fiddle to contemporary art in special exhibitions.

From Los Angeles Times