tipped (off)

past tense of tip (off)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipped (off)
Verb
  • Police did not release the victim's name, but did share that his family had been notified of the accident.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office will identify the man who died after his next of kin has been notified.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For a writer of a book that’s politically informed and deals with culture and history, this creates a big problem.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • McDaniel said owner Stephen Ross informed him of Chris Grier’s exit as general manager last Friday.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Brentford, who are looking better than some predicted, were beaten, too.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Bleacher Report's Zach Buckley recently predicted the Los Angeles Dodgers would be the ones to land Tucker on a 10-year contract this offseason.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Purushotham argued that build versus buy is often not an either/or, though his team stays apprised of what Citi’s 30,000 software developers are working on.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Ig Nobel apprised The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate achievements that make people laugh, then think.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By Saturday, the weather service is forecasting sunny skies and temperatures in the low 60s in the day and around 42 degrees in the evening.
    Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Context The NWS forecast earlier this week that the East Coast would experience moderate to major flooding, with winds expected to raise water levels.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 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
  • The minute that happened, Farm Bank’s collapse was foretold.
    Moisés Naím, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • All intermingling is foretold in the extraordinary opening number, which establishes the specific musical and dance motifs associated with each grouping.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 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 Nov. 2025.

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