Synonyms of teeter
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Verb
The pile of books teetered and fell to the floor.
She teetered down the street in her high heels.
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Shooting out of order, Hoss had to teeter quite literally between different registers of sobriety and not.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Nov. 2025
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
Both are perfectly capable of turning sequences that teeter on the edge of bathos into brawls.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
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Verb
This big band take of a song already teetering on irredeemable absurdity, wants to be lush and seductive.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Shooting out of order, Hoss had to teeter quite literally between different registers of sobriety and not.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 Nov. 2025
Noun
Lipton is an immensely gifted songwriter — especially in a clever, pop-swingy mode pitched somewhere between Cole Porter and They Might Be Giants — but when the play breaks into meta-theater, his approach teeters.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
Both are perfectly capable of turning sequences that teeter on the edge of bathos into brawls.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for teeter
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“Teeter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teeter. Accessed 9 Dec. 2025.
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