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
  • Coroner’s officials will release the person’s name after notifying next of kin.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Anderson took off without rendering aid to Larice or notifying emergency services.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of notifying
Verb
  • Coming off a season in which the Group of 5 sent two teams to the College Football Playoff, predicting what will happen in 2026 is more difficult than ever.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Analysts who spoke to ABC News acknowledged the difficulty in predicting when the most severe effects of the ballooning debt may materialize but warned that regardless of the answer, the current trajectory is unsustainable.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of predicting
Verb
  • Coach Todd Monken made the announcement Monday after informing Watson and Sanders.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • In December 2024, the FBI issued a notice to sports leagues informing teams and players of recent burglaries targeting professional athletes, CBS Sports reported.
    — S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of informing
Verb
  • Colorado State University has reached a similar conclusion, forecasting nine named storms, four hurricanes and one major hurricane.
    — Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • For Houston, Austin and San Antonio, local weather services are forecasting the cities to see a heat index anywhere from 108 to 112.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 20 Aug. 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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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