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In life she may have played second fiddle to the flamboyant Rivera, but time has reversed the artistic hierarchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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

When Tesla reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, the numbers could once again play second fiddle to narrative details about the company’s futuristic forays into robotaxis and humanoid robots.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

During his time at Arsenal, Manninger largely played second fiddle to David Seaman, but deputised for the injured England keeper late in the 1997-98 season.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

The fiddle fig presses against the other wall in the nook, just across from the fern.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

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

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

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

We go up the porch and wait there while Mr. Wood well fiddles in the kitchen, squeezing juice from the lemons.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 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

Hollister stepped away from the counter and fiddled with books on a nearby shelf, straightening some, pulling a title off one shelf and moving it to the row below.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

"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

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

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025

She pauses for a long time, then she lets go of his hands and looks down at her lap, fiddling with the edge of her cardigan.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler