tipped (off)

Definition of tipped (off)next
past tense of tip (off)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipped (off)
Verb
  • The identities of the other two victims, a 61-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man, are not being released until their families have been notified.
    Katie Houlis, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Multiple agencies search for Lynette Hooker Once police were notified about Lynette’s disappearance, their agency, along with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and the Hope Town Volunteer Fire and Rescue, started searching the area.
    Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Decades of toilet development informed the system aboard Orion that the Artemis II astronauts are using.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • All three brothers slept in the North, or so I was informed, although there had been a time when one of them slept in the South.
    Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The storms are predicted to bring quarter-sized hail (1 inch).
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Just like not so long ago no one would have predicted a Kansan would play in the World Cup.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Since the union authorized a strike, its leadership will take the motion to leadership at the USW’s Pittsburgh headquarters, though negotiators have kept Pittsburgh apprised since negotiations began, Beck said.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Rubio, however, has argued the administration has kept congressional leaders apprised.
    Ana Ceballos Follow, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Samsung's gains came as the company also forecast an eightfold jump in first-quarter profit on Tuesday, driven by surging AI demand for its high-bandwidth memory chips used in data centers and servers.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
  • For example, under a plausible, moderately high emissions scenario, Phoenix’s available surface water supply was forecast to drop below the historical average by 2060.
    Dave White, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In his autobiography, Wright discusses how his mother prophesied his future as an architect, decorating his nursery with buildings to encourage this development.
    Carrie Hojnicki, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2026
  • People were told that artificial intelligence was the final asteroid in the extinction event prophesied by Trevor Horn, and further told that generative models and algorithmic composition would democratize creation until value ceased to exist.
    William Jones, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • But before Othership and Akari Sauna, the 1970 film Deep End foretold this trend in a much creepier and surrealist manner.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Their four-volume distillation of all aspects of the Pittsburgh economy foretold the decline the region would face due to the shifting economic geography of the steel industry and Pittsburgh’s extreme lack of industrial diversification – things local leaders commonly saw as strengths.
    Christopher Briem, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Those events presaged the 2026 Iran war, in which Israel and the United States launched a large-scale operation against Iran’s military infrastructure and senior leadership.
    Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
  • His first bitter taste of the majors presaged many more setbacks to come.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Tipped (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tipped%20%28off%29. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.

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