fiddle

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

Burnett: Definitely, yeah — it had a fiddle on it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

Despite playing second fiddle for much of the campaign, Trafford was given his England debut last month in the friendly draw against Uruguay.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

“Now run along and let Ma put you to bed,” said Pa, and he took his fiddle out of its box.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

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

Guitars are plucked, fiddles are fiddled, and brows are furrowed as Marcus Mumford navigates his mid-30s, and the reorganisation of friendships and priorities that mid-life brings.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025

At Stagecoach, Disco Shark is replaced with Disco Horse, and there are still pulsing beats but also some fiddles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

At the very rear, so far away that they could hardly be seen, were the percussion instruments, and lastly, in a long line up one side of a steep slope, were the solemn bass fiddles.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Even Mathew Knowles has publicly fiddled with the true name of his diagnosis, opting instead for the not-quite-accurate “chest cancer” and also “male breast cancer,” which falsely implies a masculine version of the disease.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

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

Guitars are plucked, fiddles are fiddled, and brows are furrowed as Marcus Mumford navigates his mid-30s, and the reorganisation of friendships and priorities that mid-life brings.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025

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

Rosa sighed and fiddled with her long painted nails.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

I was fiddling with my phone during both expressions of loyalty, nervous that I wouldn’t get an intelligible recording of Mr. Paxton’s remarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

I nodded, absently fiddling with a tear in the sleeve of my new plaid shirt I hadn’t noticed before taking it.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken