fiddle away

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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. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025 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. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiddle away
Verb
  • Chopra is well known for spending much of his career developing, teaching, writing about and disseminating such practices.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • The squad have spent the past week in nearby New York City, holed up in a hotel on affluent Fifth Avenue but occasionally allowed out to explore Manhattan between training sessions.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 12 July 2025
Verb
  • The recalled turkey bacon should be thrown away or returned to where it was purchased.
    Monroe Hammond, EverydayHealth.com, 8 July 2025
  • For each meal purchased during Louisville Restaurant Week, $1 will be donated to Feed Louisville, a nonprofit that saves food from being thrown away and repurposes it into meals for the local homeless and food insecure community.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • For the first time, Prime Day is now a four-day event, running through July 11.
    Alexander Cox, Space.com, 10 July 2025
  • Prime Day kicked off on Tuesday, July 8, and is set to run through Friday, July 11.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 9 July 2025
Verb
  • In just the wild-card era — dating back to the 1995 season — a whopping 10 teams have lost six in a row and gone on to win the World Series.
    Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 22 July 2025
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average, however, lost 0.32%.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 July 2025

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“Fiddle away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiddle%20away. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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