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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kirk Ellis,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for second fiddle
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.
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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?
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During the congressional hearing, Ranyan testified that the agency’s assistant secretary for security met with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department earlier in the year to pursue a contract for 24-hour patrol.
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Heat assistant coach Wayne Ellington will coach the team.
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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.
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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.
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The former aide worked for the brothers from 2005 to 2013, before their estrangement.
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Aaron Sorkin came calling soon after, casting Hill as presidential aide Charlie Young on The West Wing, a role that earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination.
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Gonzalez refused to speak to deputies during his arrest or his interrogation, authorities said.
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Likewise, the board has approved several permanent replacements selected by Chait for top administrators who are leaving the district, including the departing deputy superintendent of instruction, Karla Estrada.
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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.
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At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.
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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.
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By 1997, he was named coadjutor archbishop of Buenos Aires, assuming full leadership of the archdiocese the following year.
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