Examples of fiddle

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The following week he was fiddling with it in his lap at the start of the lesson.
With simulations, one must always wonder whether the findings are simply the result of fiddling with the parameters.
I can't remember how the numbers were worked out - we fiddled around with that.
He would be a hypocrite, and we have a perfectly good word for that, without fiddling with the notion of truth.
Because as the cost of computational inference drops, we will rely less on analytic fiddling around in order to handle complicated inferential problems.
Her expression is blank; periodically she fiddles with her feet, drinks mineral water, plays with the bottle.
Similarities between the patterns produced by the simulation and those found in the data were not produced by fiddling with parameters.
Instead, the paper struck me as fiddling with theory.
Her three laboratories were equipped with tables fitted with fiddles and light tables and were each supplied with distilled water and sea water.
They apparently taught him to play the fiddle.
E practised in front of a mirror in order to try to correct problems with holding the fiddle which she had developed at the beginning.
Patterns like the" fix" and the" fiddle" were developed by skilled workers, in piecework systems where considerable discretion was retained on the shopfloor.
He and his fiddle are silent, silenced by noise.
What often occurs is for a pedal steel, fiddle, dobro, mandolin or guitar to act as a secondary or counter-melody.
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