fiddle
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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
Warren Hood, who has been equally at home with symphonic music and in jug bands, provides an often central and dominant fiddle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
“Ghost Elephants” is a Werner Herzog film so, unsurprisingly, the titular characters play second fiddle to a man on an arduous quest, with fascinating digressions along the way.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
So fifty cents more a week was scraped up and folded into Blossom’s reluctant hand and she was sent off to take fiddle lessons, too.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Musical Instruments - Introductory
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Musical Instruments - Middle School
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Musical Instruments - High School
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