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Recent Examples of second fiddle
But for those in on the secret, places like Ocean Springs, Gulfport, and Bay St. Louis are hardly second fiddles.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
But neither of those roles were true romantic leads, playing second fiddle to other narrative arcs.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2025
However things shake out over the next few weeks, the men’s championship game is all but guaranteed to step up again after playing second fiddle to the women’s tilt a year ago.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Nylander often plays second fiddle in the Leafs offence, but that won’t be the case in the 4 Nations Face-Off.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
But neither of those roles were true romantic leads, playing second fiddle to other narrative arcs.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2025
However things shake out over the next few weeks, the men’s championship game is all but guaranteed to step up again after playing second fiddle to the women’s tilt a year ago.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Nylander often plays second fiddle in the Leafs offence, but that won’t be the case in the 4 Nations Face-Off.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for second fiddle
Noun
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Gonzalez said his home run Friday, his second of the season, included a hunting trip.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2025
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Free charts are often delayed by several seconds or more.—
David Materazzi,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Wiegman’s long-time assistant, Arjan Veurink, is to leave after the tournament to take over the Netherlands’ women’s team.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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This kind of human moderator review of chats is pretty common in the gaming world and can even apply to voice recordings made by various smart home assistants.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
5 June 2025
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Morris wasn't fazed when the offer of rental aid came with a major condition: That money would end after seven years, max.—
Jennifer Ludden,
NPR,
7 June 2025
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Moore pushed back on the implication that the new aid plan, which was set up at the behest of Israel to counter the alleged looting of aid by Hamas, had been mismanaged.—
Tom Soufi Burridge,
ABC News,
7 June 2025
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The aides were career government employees, commonly referred to as detailees.—
Matthew Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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The administration then placed around 160 aides on administrative leave while officials reviewed staffing to best meet Trump's goal of downsizing the size and scope of the federal government.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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The deputies that fired their weapons are placed on administrative assignment, Codd said.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2025
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The White House deputy press secretary, Harrison Fields, said the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is creating media to support a particular political party on the taxpayers' dime.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 June 2025
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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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In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 July 2024
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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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Coyne was named archbishop coadjutor on June 25, 2023.—
Ed Stannard,
Hartford Courant,
1 May 2024
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“Second fiddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second%20fiddle. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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