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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

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

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

The boy on the fiddle turns a knob on an oversize boom box, cranks up the volume, and starts strumming.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Ludwig Göransson’s phenomenal score backs Coogler up, layering fiddles over doom metal as if they were meant to harmonize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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

As he told Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” in 1998, “it was fascinating what these guys could do with these banjos and these fiddles and the steel guitars.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Granddaddy fiddles with the button on the oven clock, as if Grandma hasn’t said a word.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

Sitting at a park picnic table in Crystal City, Virginia, the morning light casting shadows over his face, Wall fiddled with the strap on his backpack.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

On 99, Atkinson fiddled nervously at Kumara and could have given an edge.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 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

Lily fiddled with the radio until she found a good station that wasn't in the middle of a long run of commercials.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

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

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

Katherine sits inside, fiddling with a pair of the whitest gloves I’ve ever seen.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland