fiddle
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Jayzus, one wants to say, stop scraping that fiddle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The company’s main generator of revenue, electric vehicles, often plays second fiddle.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 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
It sounded like an orchestra fiddle player trying to play country music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Ma’s shadow, and Aunt Eliza’s and Uncle Peter’s were big and quivering on the walls in the flickering fire-light, and Pa’s fiddle sang merrily to itself.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Administration seems determined to avoid the endless fiddles that torpedoed the frigate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 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
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
She fiddles with the pom-poms that string down from her hat.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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
As the umpires fiddled with their lightmeters, an interruption was so predictable that Sri Lanka promoted Prabath Jayasuriya to number four to see them to the delay.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
The thing I’m most proud of, which I will shout from every rooftop, is that not one note of the whole special has been tweaked, fiddled with, nothing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
“It has to be perfect,” Isa said with a soft sigh as she fiddled with the buttons on her coat.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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
Researchers quietly work away, fiddling with parts of the machine.
From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025
Sandi, who had lost interest in pleading for a reasonable menu and had been fiddling with the ribbon in her hair, looked up.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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