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Recent Examples of second fiddle
Theo Hernández Another former Real Madrid player, Hernández joined Los Blancos in 2017 from Atlético Madrid and went on to play 23 times for the first team, acting as second fiddle to Marcelo Díaz at the time.
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Sam Leveridge, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Any notions of generational traumas being unavoidable, or the sins of the father being hidden from sons in the name of protectiveness, plays second fiddle to, say, what Perkins can do to a bus full of cheerleaders at the wrong place at the wrong time.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Instead, precursor voters decided Culkin’s backing band should be a bunch of second fiddles.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Perhaps the thinnest of all SNL skit-to-movie translations — and that really is saying a lot — Ferrell bobs his head a lot and mostly plays second fiddle to Chris Kattan, something that would never, ever happen again.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
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Sam Leveridge, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Any notions of generational traumas being unavoidable, or the sins of the father being hidden from sons in the name of protectiveness, plays second fiddle to, say, what Perkins can do to a bus full of cheerleaders at the wrong place at the wrong time.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Instead, precursor voters decided Culkin’s backing band should be a bunch of second fiddles.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Perhaps the thinnest of all SNL skit-to-movie translations — and that really is saying a lot — Ferrell bobs his head a lot and mostly plays second fiddle to Chris Kattan, something that would never, ever happen again.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for second fiddle
Noun
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The ball fell to the court in no-man’s land and the final seconds ran off the clock.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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But Houston swarmed back with a furious rally, erasing a nine-point deficit over the final 135 seconds for a thrilling victory.—
Matt Rybaltowski,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Grimes was a graduate assistant under Lou Holtz from 1981-82.—
Michael Harley,
Arkansas Online,
6 Apr. 2025
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Donovan was the lead assistant for the Wildcats during a 1993 run to the Final Four.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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For instance, sources said the office was investigating allegations that disaster aid workers with the Federal Emergency Management Agency had skipped over houses that displayed signs supporting Trump during the 2024 election.—
J. David McSwane,
ProPublica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Rooted in principles of mutual aid, member ownership, and not-for-profit service, credit unions were built to prioritize people over profit.—
Shane Enete,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Even former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is attracting a challenger — Saikat Chakrabarti, a 39-year-old former aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — though attempts to primary the Democratic powerhouse have failed over the last few cycles.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Mar. 2025
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School board President Sean Harden, who was appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, delayed a vote on a budget amendment last Thursday that would have opened the door for a borrowing scenario to cover both costs proposed by Johnson’s top aides.—
Gregory Royal Pratt,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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Shelley Webb is a supervising deputy in the criminal division of the City Attorney’s Office.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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Two men were killed in a shooting near West Palm Beach on Saturday afternoon, deputies said.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Apr. 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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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 19 Apr. 2025.
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