fiddling
Example Sentences
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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
Researchers quietly work away, fiddling with parts of the machine.
From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025
Updike stuck up for himself when faced with the magazine’s intrusively correct fiddling: In 1958 he sent one editor, William Maxwell, an unwavering paragraph against a single word.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
“Oh, there’s women,” she says, fiddling with a butter knife.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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