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Marmoush joined City from Eintracht Frankfurt for £59m last January but had to play second fiddle to Erling Haaland for much of his time at Etihad Stadium.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Megan Romer likes to spend her free time sewing costumes for school plays, picking blackberries in her backyard in rural Cayuga County, N.Y., and watching her partner play the fiddle in folk bands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

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

One of the men was tuning his fiddle.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

From buskers on the bodhran to musicians firing up their fiddles, the atmosphere and the celebration of music and culture has been joyful.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The Administration seems determined to avoid the endless fiddles that torpedoed the frigate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

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 fiddles with her hands and doesn’t respond.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

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 a stack of papers while waiting for reporters in the room to quiet down and then, with self-assured gravitas, announced a detailed plan for legislation that would provide reparations for Black Californians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Dad listened, sucking on his cheeks while his right hand fiddled with the gearshift.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

I’m traditionally more resistant to playwrights fiddling around with Shakespeare than I am with them updating Greek tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

"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

Naima peeked at him from behind the curtain, fiddling with the white ribbon she kept hidden on her wrist under the long sleeve of her salwar kameez.

From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins