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
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
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
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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
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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
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The recalled turkey bacon should be thrown away or returned to where it was purchased.—
Monroe Hammond,
EverydayHealth.com,
8 July 2025
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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
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For the first time, Prime Day is now a four-day event, running through July 11.—
Alexander Cox,
Space.com,
10 July 2025
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Prime Day kicked off on Tuesday, July 8, and is set to run through Friday, July 11.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
9 July 2025
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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
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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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