tipping (off)

verb

present participle of tip (off)
as in notifying

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipping (off)
  1. notifying
  2. predicting
  3. informing
  4. forecasting
  5. apprising
  6. prophesying
  7. foretelling
  8. presaging
Verb
  • To make matters worse, the Department of Education sent emails to nine million people notifying them of approvals even as the plan was blocked.
    — Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • At the same time, the Commission recently published a Fair Chance Hiring Intake Form that asks complainants whether the employer provided such information when notifying them of an intent to rescind a job offer or take other adverse action.
    — Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Definition of notifying
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  • Many climate scientists are predicting that 2027 — because of pent up heat — will break the 2024 global high temperature record set by the last strong El Nino.
    — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • This independence from linear order is incompatible with an LLM’s fundamental purpose of predicting the next value in a linear sequence.
    — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026
Definition of predicting
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  • Financing On Saturday, the NFL sent a memo to the other 31 teams informing their leadership about the deal.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026
  • Khalra’s investigation alleged that thousands of people who had disappeared were cremated anonymously by police without informing their families or maintaining official records.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Definition of informing
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  • Finance chiefs are now expected to quantify AI’s impact on performance, from customer operations to forecasting, while also helping lead adoption, West explained.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 13 July 2026
  • United States Fall 2026 Temperature Predictions Overall, The Old Farmer’s Almanac is forecasting a warmer-than-usual autumn for the interior of the United States, from the Northern Plains through the Heartland and into the Deep South.
    — Molly Burford, Southern Living, 10 July 2026
Definition of forecasting
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  • The White House team is required to file a report apprising the court of the status of their compliance within 21 days after the date the order takes effect.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of apprising
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  • Hall was raised in large part by a single mother—who, perhaps prophesying her son’s eventual vocation in Hollywood, was named Annie Hall.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
  • She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of prophesying
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  • But the drama here feels too diagrammatic, foretelling a tragic fate from the first scene onward as everyone parties down like their lives depend on it.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • The Guardian similarly noted more than a dozen $100,000 bets on prediction markets foretelling the February air strikes on Iran, while The New York Times last month reported 150 bets of $1,000 or more predicting the start of the war.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of foretelling
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  • Yet the book is also about the disappearance of time and places, with summer’s end presaging more permanent losses.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Andy Cohen was lost to the wormhole, presaging more losses to come.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 May 2026
Definition of presaging
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