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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

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

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

He stretched backward, stifling a yawn, then scratched his head and brought his fingers down to fiddle with a hole in his string vest.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

Ludwig Göransson’s phenomenal score backs Coogler up, layering fiddles over doom metal as if they were meant to harmonize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

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

Bram fiddles with the music, and Abby stares out the window, lips tightly pursed.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

Even Mathew Knowles has publicly fiddled with the true name of his diagnosis, opting instead for the not-quite-accurate “chest cancer” and also “male breast cancer,” which falsely implies a masculine version of the disease.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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

On 99, Atkinson fiddled nervously at Kumara and could have given an edge.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024

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

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

"The constant need to keep fiddling to pull them up displays an uncomfortable and unconfident demeanour," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

I was fiddling with my phone during both expressions of loyalty, nervous that I wouldn’t get an intelligible recording of Mr. Paxton’s remarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Neville is skeptical that businesses will be fiddling around with AI products to create their own cybersecurity.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

The ongoing injuries have left Musselman to continue fiddling with his lineup in search of answers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

“Yeah. My mom,” I say, fiddling with the ends of my scarf.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali