fiddled away

past tense of fiddle away

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiddled away
Verb
  • From chunky cuties to thick teddies, these brown bears from Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska spent all summer chomping down on salmon to compete in this year's annual Fat Bear Week.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • One of its investigators had spent weeks undercover working and traveling with ShowMe Tigers, watching the animals being forced to perform tricks, said Humane World for Animals, formerly called the Humane Society of the United States, in a statement Sunday.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hamilton famously lost her arm to a shark attack in 2003 and hopped back on her board one month later.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Hudson’s daughter, Ricky (Perry Mattfield), who works as an assistant coach, is a former track star who lost her confidence after an injury and now struggles to get the other Catfish coaches (including her dad) to take her seriously.
    Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Miller, the trash guy, seems to have more info on them than evidence, and let’s slip that Oliver got (and threw away) a generous offer on his apartment.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
  • An Arkansas woman almost threw away a winning lottery ticket with a big prize.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His illness has limited him to light catch play over the past few days, and the shift in plans meant some slight alterations to his routine, which Ireton ran through with club security.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But dig deeper, and everything ran through her.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Fiddled away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiddled%20away. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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