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fiddling

[fid-ling] / ˈfɪd lɪŋ /




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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

Mondelez says it has not been fiddling with the recipe, at least not recently.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

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

He was fiddling with something small and pink, rubbing it back and forth in his hand.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller




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