- present participle of fiddle.
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
Take, for example, Parton’s great-grandmother, Tennessee, who kept her home open for “singing, fiddling, and buck dancing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Ninety-nine times out of 100, that means letting shareholders decide with a minimum of bureaucratic fiddling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Mondelez says it has not been fiddling with the recipe, at least not recently.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
The fiddling and the dancing went on and on.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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