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fiddle

verb as in mess with, tinker

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No longer playing second fiddle in a shared arena, the Clippers are set to open their inaugural season at their $2-billion home in Inglewood, the Intuit Dome, the newest addition to the city’s lineup of sporting venues.

“But when they were rolling and winning championships, we were trying to figure out what this club was even going to be -- if it was going to continue in Major League Soccer. And it was so evident that we just didn’t have a home, and didn’t have identity, and we were just second fiddle.”

“Protecting Revolut from being used for financial crime always played second fiddle to the desire to launch new products and to get existing customers to use products more,” an insider, who wished to remain anonymous, told us.

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Reeves told reporters she was “not going to fiddle the figures or make something to get different results” when asked whether she would consider using the easier debt target.

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The collapse followed as Jamie Smith was bowled by Glenn Maxwell for three, Liam Livingstone edged behind trying to fiddle a cut off Zampa for a three-ball duck and Jacob Bethell struggled for 13 from 27 before being stumped off Head.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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