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Recent Examples of second fiddle
Overall, though, Harvey continued to round into a complete three-down back Sunday after playing second fiddle to Dobbins for much of the year.
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Luca Evans, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025
The Ed Gein Story and All’s Fair were met with critical hostility — the first is a thematically repetitive and exploitative condemnation of true crime and the audience who loves it, the second a bizarrely overqualified ensemble of acting titans playing second fiddle to Kim Kardashian.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
Dubar has also had to contend with playing second fiddle to some NFL-caliber running backs in his time at Boise State.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 5 Nov. 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers have often played second fiddle to the New York Yankees in baseball’s history books.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025
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Luca Evans, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025
The Ed Gein Story and All’s Fair were met with critical hostility — the first is a thematically repetitive and exploitative condemnation of true crime and the audience who loves it, the second a bizarrely overqualified ensemble of acting titans playing second fiddle to Kim Kardashian.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
Dubar has also had to contend with playing second fiddle to some NFL-caliber running backs in his time at Boise State.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 5 Nov. 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers have often played second fiddle to the New York Yankees in baseball’s history books.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for second fiddle
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Kane opened the scoring on a two-man advantage with 29 seconds left in the first period.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Instead, Prairie View A&M was forced to foul on the other end, and UAPB guard Kristyna Boyd made one of her two fouls shots with 10 seconds to go to set the final score.—
Erick Taylor,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026
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The number varied dramatically, from $28,900 in overtime to Police Officer Sikko Barghoorn to $42 for legal assistant Joanna Ortega.—
Scott McIntosh,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Jan. 2026
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Prior to his time at North Crowley, Harris served as head coach at Mesquite High School and also had stints as an assistant at Cedar Hill, Richardson, Arlington Seguin and Little Elm.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Jan. 2026
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Fire department personell who responded to the scene rendered aid to the man and transported him to a nearby hospital, but he was later pronounced dead.—
Andrew Adeolu,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Scarce aid can be maximized by investing in approaches that reach more people at less cost.—
Ciaran Donnelly,
Time,
11 Jan. 2026
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On the other hand, Aesha and Nathan have taken on new roles as head teacher and aide in the third-grade classroom, composed of Kizzi and Joe, who cannot stop touching each other, giggling, and speaking over the teacher, and Max, who cannot go a whole day without throwing a temper tantrum.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2026
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Cook paid into the retirement system while working as an aide to Healey for the past three years and as a UMass Hotel manager since 2016, state Comptroller records show.—
Joe Dwinell,
Boston Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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Bashor is an assistant professor of bioengineering and biosciences at Rice and deputy director of the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Jan. 2026
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In the late spring, a University of Utah college student was arrested after a Mesa County sheriff’s deputy tipped off ICE officers to her location and immigration status.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 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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Since 2019, when Woodward took over as the Gooding adjutant, that totals more than $23,000, according to an accounting obtained by the Statesman from the county clerk through a public records request.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 July 2024
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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 15 Jan. 2026.
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