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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

Certainly the music played a big part, the children busking on every spare square of pavement, a joyful cacophony of tin whistle, fiddle, bodhrán.

From BBC ● Aug. 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

Without it, the IRS will happily play you like a fiddle.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

In the presence of such nobility, I lowered the fiddle and bow, and fixed my eyes upon the ground.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

As he fiddles with his cap, I suggest that this very building is in fact a re-branded model of a youth club.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Sports bookies are reduced to fan-frustrating fiddles to prevent betting on plays that already happened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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

My dad fiddles with the TV and all the cords, and manages to get the ancient DVD player up and running.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

It was one of more than 20 locations where he abused his position as party boss, spent more than £400,000 of SNP cash and fiddled the books afterwards.

From BBC ● May 25, 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

Family members and friends fiddled with the placards they wore baring the brothers’ photographs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

As she fiddled with the enlarger, Fadi carried the photo paper over to the “wet” area of the darkroom.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

The two suspected killers, Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams, sat fiddling with their phones on a trailer hitched to Boyd’s white Ram TRX.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

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

I smiled at them and sat with my purse on my lap, fiddling with the clasp until the teacher entered.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez