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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

The company’s main generator of revenue, electric vehicles, often plays second fiddle.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 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

She looked at Pa sitting on the bench by the hearth, the fire-light gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle.

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

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

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

While Johanna collects water and my arrows, Beetee fiddles with his wire, and Finnick takes to the water.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

He fiddled for 187 minutes while Rome burned.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2024

“It has to be perfect,” Isa said with a soft sigh as she fiddled with the buttons on her coat.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

I’m traditionally more resistant to playwrights fiddling around with Shakespeare than I am with them updating Greek tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Out of the corner of his eye, he could see JB bending over Mr. Hodge and Angela fiddling with the front part of her gun.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix