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The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before.

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In Germany, Yehudi Menuhin had fiddled for an all Allied audience, and for an all German one.

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Gregory fidgeted; a bystander, he said, had fiddled with the plane's gasoline tank cap, but "there was nothing to worry about, I probably only lost two or three gallons."

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He had fiddled on the fringes of Hollywood, helping to write Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and Paths of Glory, but found no steady work.

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The club’s camera didn’t work properly since so many students had fiddled with it over the years.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai