- present participle of fiddle.
fiddling
Example Sentences
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Some 1,500 individual investors were packed into the seats of a Houston convention hall, snapping pictures and fiddling with their neon-green name tags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Google Calendar provides a “secret address” in settings so you can avoid any API fiddling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 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
Sandi, who had lost interest in pleading for a reasonable menu and had been fiddling with the ribbon in her hair, looked up.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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