fiddling
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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 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
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
Out of the corner of his eye, he could see JB bending over Mr. Hodge and Angela fiddling with the front part of her gun.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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