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[fid-l] / ˈfɪd l /


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These records feature the fiery jazz-and-blues-infused fiddle playing of Scott Stoneman, a fellow wild seed and veteran of the D.C. bust-heads.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

She said he was loved by friends, talented in music and sport, having played the fiddle, accordion and enjoyed judo, chess and sea scouts.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

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

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

I fiddle with my headphones, trying to reattach the ear pad, but it’s hopeless.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

Their songs weave in Irish lilting, set against a lively mix of drums, fiddles, flutes, harps, banjos, cello and concertina - skills honed over years of playing house parties, pub céilís and traditional festivals.

From BBC May 16, 2026

Bro-country hitmaker Jason Aldean debuted in 2005 with “Hicktown,” a single that paired screaming fiddles with distortion-drenched guitars to celebrate the ways single-stoplight towns make their own fun.

From Salon May 16, 2025

“I just loved it. I loved the music, I loved the tempos of the mandolin and ... I loved the fiddles, too,” Williams says.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2024

When the fiddles warbled and the drums thumped, he grabbed Nan and paraded her around the dance stages until she was breathless with laughter.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

For years, the egg has ruled the breakfast table like a sun god—worshipped, aestheticized, endlessly fiddled with by men in starched aprons and women with ring lights.

From Salon Nov. 13, 2025

Family members and friends fiddled with the placards they wore baring the brothers’ photographs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2025

As the umpires fiddled with their lightmeters, an interruption was so predictable that Sri Lanka promoted Prabath Jayasuriya to number four to see them to the delay.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2024

Gaunt and weakened by cancer at 42, his father reached for the buttons on Kerr’s shirt, fiddled with them and said something about getting ready to catch the plane to their cabin in the woods.

From New York Times Mar. 12, 2024

He fiddled with the lock inside until he heard it click.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The jubilant rush—“woo hoo,” as she puts it—of music-making is typically followed by a period of obsessive fiddling with production and mixes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Neville is skeptical that businesses will be fiddling around with AI products to create their own cybersecurity.

From MarketWatch Feb. 27, 2026

The ongoing injuries have left Musselman to continue fiddling with his lineup in search of answers.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 14, 2026

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

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

With all the training over the past five days and fiddling with various weapons and techniques, her body ached.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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