How to Use fiddling in a Sentence
fiddling
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That means they’re perfectly aligned from the get-go, with no need for after-the-fact fiddling.
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IEEE Spectrum,
11 Nov. 2016
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Now scientists have found that, with a little fiddling, the feathers can be adjusted to turn flashes of light into laser beams.
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The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Aug. 2025
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As the options for facial fiddling have become more accessible, the face is increasingly regarded as an image to be perfected.
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Valerie Monroe,
Allure,
15 Jan. 2026
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For those deep in the Apple ecosystem who want headphones that just work without all the fiddling, the Beats Solo 4 make sense with a 25% discount.
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PC Magazine,
13 Oct. 2025
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Colorado’s lone goal was a result of some Matt Wells tactical fiddling — and Keegan Rosenberry playing like his job’s on the line — gone right.
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Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
15 Apr. 2026
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Her fiddling is a looser, freer, more accessible type of memorialization—less a notation than an invocation, a summoning of her homeland’s spirit.
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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