FIDDLING AWAY Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

fiddling away

verb

present participle of fiddle away

as in spending

to use up carelessly fiddled away the entire evening surfing the Internet

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Recording a good voiceover can mean finding a narrator, booking studio time, or spending hours trying to get a usable take yourself.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 Sep. 2026
Campaign The two candidates are spending millions of dollars to get elected, and the money is apparent with the high frequency of television commercials, sometimes as often as four times per hour on one station.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of spending

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Opposition galvanized about a year later after the NCDOT released early design maps that showed the interstate expansion running through historically Black neighborhoods.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026
Purdue’s slot receivers tore through the UCLA secondary, running through multiple layers of coverage.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of running through

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Losing experienced educators means losing years of knowledge, relationships and expertise that cannot simply be replaced with another name on a classroom roster.

— Roberto Fernandez III, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
Otherwise, every losing party would have an incentive to scour deliberations for something improper.

— Monu Bedi, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of losing

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The New York Sanitation Department is telling New Yorkers to stop throwing away their needles the wrong way.

— Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Residents described throwing away food, shelling out for generators and sending their children away to family.

— Jen Guadarrama, IndyStar, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of throwing away

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fiddling (around)

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fiddlings

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