fiddling
Example Sentences
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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
Researchers quietly work away, fiddling with parts of the machine.
From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025
Beckett was famously unforgiving when it came to fiddling with his works; his estate would not likely countenance egregious diversions from the “Godot” text.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025
I’m sitting in my usual place, fiddling with the loose string on the armrest, a throw cushion decorated with orange, blue, and yellow beads stitched in a pattern of repeated circles in my lap.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
