as in to spend
to use up carelessly
fiddled away the entire evening surfing the Internet
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Recent Examples of fiddle away
Her positive pablum came too late to stop critics from casting her as a modern-day Nero, the emperor who supposedly fiddled away as Rome burned.
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiddle away
Verb
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That year, the board hired Pat Gelsinger, an engineer who had spent 30 years at Intel before leaving it for other companies and eventually running VMware.—
Lila MacLellan,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Elordi spent up to 10 hours per session in the makeup chair and worked 18-hour days in full prosthetics.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Public health authorities are urging people to throw away certain precooked pasta meals sold at two popular retailers over concerns that they could be contaminated with listeria and connected to a worsening nationwide outbreak.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
30 Sep. 2025
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The pasta dishes should be thrown away or returned to where they were purchased.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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His upcoming world tour in support of Debí Tirar Más Fotos kicks off in November and is set to run through July 2026, with no stops in the United states currently planned.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
29 Sep. 2025
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Those feasts are scheduled to run through the end of the festival.—
Dada Jovanovic,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Indonesian gymnastics has lost one of the nation's finest sons.—
Victoria Beaule,
ABC News,
26 Sep. 2025
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If a player is left in a room, they will be stuck there, losing a point each round, until another player returns to the room to release them.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Fiddle away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiddle%20away. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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