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Recent Examples of second fiddle
My connoisseurship plays second fiddle to my status as a member of the clan.
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Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 June 2026
The religion of college football is strong in the South, and everything else just plays second fiddle.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
Bicycle tail lights have a way of playing second fiddle to their brighter, more interesting headlight siblings.
—Ben Coxworth
may 15, New Atlas, 15 May 2026
Colleen Camp, on the other hand, demonstrates a flair for light comedy as an alluring French maid, though the role too often requires her to play second fiddle to her own enhanced bosom.
—Kirk Ellis, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
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Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 June 2026
The religion of college football is strong in the South, and everything else just plays second fiddle.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
Bicycle tail lights have a way of playing second fiddle to their brighter, more interesting headlight siblings.
—Ben Coxworth
may 15, New Atlas, 15 May 2026
Colleen Camp, on the other hand, demonstrates a flair for light comedy as an alluring French maid, though the role too often requires her to play second fiddle to her own enhanced bosom.
—Kirk Ellis, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for second fiddle
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Because she had already been assessed a technical foul moments earlier, the shove counted as her second of the night, earning an automatic ejection.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2026
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But when almost anyone can fabricate a visually similar image in seconds from a text prompt using artificial intelligence, how do people decide which image is real?—
Nan Li,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
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Her two assistants, Brooke Mayo and Kathryn Nesbitt, are also American women.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
19 June 2026
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Parker, a former Eagles assistant, has risen quickly through the NFL coaching ranks and now faces a tough task with a roster full of new faces and high expectations.—
Briana Aldridge,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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Elmo Fire Department Elmo, an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, requested mutual aid from College Mound and Wills Point due to the number of vehicles involved and additional minor crashes in the eastbound lanes.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
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After the crash, a civilian vessel in the area came to the aid of the three victims and transported them to Bridge Bay Marina.—
Velvet Wu
June 21,
Sacbee.com,
21 June 2026
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One such post targeting the wife of a Dooley operative led to Collins firing a top political aide responsible for the post.—
Tia Mitchell,
AJC.com,
17 June 2026
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The nonprofit didn’t report paying any compensation to a staff or board, which includes two former Newsom aides, Steve Kawa and Jim DeBoo, as well as Sacramento Kings COO Matina Kolokotronis.—
Haley Parsley,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2026
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According to Euro News, 125 deputies backed the government proposal, 61 voted against it and 13 abstained.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
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Ramon Padilla is the deputy graphics editor for USA TODAY.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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But that hasn’t stopped out-of-state reenactors from worrying their muskets will be confiscated at the George Washington Bridge, says Justin Costantino, adjutant of the Long Island Companies of the 3rd New York Regiment.—
Allen G. Breed,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.—
Kyla Mandel,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Schnurr came to Cincinnati in 2008 as coadjutor archbishop and took over as archbishop about a year later, upon the retirement of former Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk.—
Dan Horn,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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By 1997, he was named coadjutor archbishop of Buenos Aires, assuming full leadership of the archdiocese the following year.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Second fiddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second%20fiddle. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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