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Recent Examples of second fiddle
Will anyone ever use Lady Gaga correctly — or is she destined to forever play second fiddle to screen partners who are gunning for Oscars?
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Samantha Allen, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
Pre-pandemic, Delta played second fiddle to American Airlines at the west-coast gateway.
—Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Playing second fiddle on a kids’ sitcom wasn’t exactly creatively fulfilling.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
Her subtleties are forced to play second fiddle to Law's (enjoyable) scenery-chewing.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
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Samantha Allen, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
Pre-pandemic, Delta played second fiddle to American Airlines at the west-coast gateway.
—Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Playing second fiddle on a kids’ sitcom wasn’t exactly creatively fulfilling.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024
Her subtleties are forced to play second fiddle to Law's (enjoyable) scenery-chewing.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for second fiddle
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Pull up a chair—actually, no need to sit, because the answer is so simple that it can be summed up in a few seconds.Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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There are nearly 200,000 frames in a two-hour movie shot at 24 frames per second.Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
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To shake her up, Jean Dewberry (Maya Rudolph), the head of Dream Productions, assigns her nephew, Xeni (Richard Ayoade), to be Paula’s new assistant.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
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But what makes Android XR different from anything else and prior versions is that it’s developed with Google’s Gemini assistant at its core.Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
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But when Dobbs overturned Roe in 2022, aid organizations’ work became more in demand, more expensive, and more complicated, Marisa Falcon, the executive director of a hub for practical-support groups called Apiary, told me.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2024
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At every aid station, volunteers handed out snacks and electrolytes, rang cowbells and called out our names with words of encouragement.Antonia Bowring, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Privately, Trump's top aides have considered new candidates to lead the CFPB who are expected to soften its crackdown on the financial industry, The Washington Post previously reported.Tony Romm The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 1 Dec. 2024
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After Trump's first term, McMahon has remained a close ally as chair of the board for the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank founded by Trump aides in 2021 to promote his GOP priorities.Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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Nicholas Denny, a former Bibb County, Ga., sheriff's deputy, was revealed to have been fired by lead sheriff David Davis more than a year after the district attorney told the sheriff's office Denny lied about a local jailer committing a crime.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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America First, the nonprofit group founded by Stephen Miller, who is set to become Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, took a victory lap after the ruling.Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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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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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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Coyne was named archbishop coadjutor on June 25, 2023.Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 1 May 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, 7 May 2024
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“Second fiddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second%20fiddle. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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