tipped (off)

past tense of tip (off)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipped (off)
Verb
  • Police were notified by child and family services after the infant was taken to a children's hospital with severe burns, KSL and KUTV reported.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Employees at at least five companies across the metropolitan area do business with GM and were notified to slow, suspend or shut down operations, according to previous Star reporting.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Melvin was informed Monday morning that he had been relieved of duties.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The emphasis on sustainability informed the collection, too.
    James Manso, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With this year's costumes trend predicted to be pop culture-heavy, obvious duo costumes, like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, come to mind.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Heading into the seven-game series opener, Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon predicted the Aces’ bench could be a potential separator between the opponents.
    Ben Pickman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Most of the cases presented took place during the 80s and 90s in Korea, before the internet, streaming video, and mobile devices kept us so apprised of manmade horrors being perpetrated on the other side of the world.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Ig Nobel apprised The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate achievements that make people laugh, then think.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Any development is forecasted to be slow and will occur as the area moves towards the northwest.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The external factors of the crisis Since 2020, Cuba’s gross domestic product has shrunk by almost 11%, with economists forecasting a further decline of 1%-2% in 2025.
    Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater — and stranger — than our own.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Todd's second-ever screen role foretold his future prominence, as the taciturn Sgt.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One of Redford’s last screen roles, which presaged his retirement from acting in 2018, was as the career criminal Forrest Tucker in David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun.
    K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Her attraction to coloring books presaged her minimal style.
    News Desk, Artforum, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Tipped (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tipped%20%28off%29. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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