fiddle
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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
Jayzus, one wants to say, stop scraping that fiddle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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
Without it, the IRS will happily play you like a fiddle.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
As she fiddles with the iPod dock, I fiddle with the pen.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
The problem was that his series of tweaks and fiddles had turned his team into a barely coherent collection of walking wounded and players lined up out of position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
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
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