TIPPING (OFF) Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

tipping (off)

verb

present participle of tip (off)

as in notifying

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Investigators now had a person of interest, and headed to Pennsylvania, notifying police there.

— Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
Coast Citrus Distributors, a major fruit and vegetable grower, issued a recall and began notifying customers, officials said.

— Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of notifying

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Seat counts have stopped predicting anything, which means the pricing model underneath thirty years of enterprise software is now unstable in both directions, and everybody selling it knows.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
AlphaFold achieved remarkable accuracy at predicting a protein’s likely three-dimensional structure.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of predicting

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Buc-ee's claimed that the unauthorized use of its trademarks, including a smiling animal mascot, were benefitting the Missouri convenience store at Buc-ee's expense, while falsely informing consumers that the two businesses are related.

— Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
Yet on July 22, as federal firefighters were on high alert as dozens of wildfires were spreading across multiple states, Schulz sent an email to Forest Service staff informing them that the reorganization would begin that week.

— Chiara Eisner, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of informing

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Of course, bond yields track many factors beyond forecasting FOMC’s decisions, but expectations of rising interests rates can help drive bond yields higher.

— Simon Moore, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
The company is forecasting an overall 10 percent increase in attendance for the year, and plans to open 25 large venues through the end of 2027 that will allow for 15 million additional fans.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 30 July 2026

Definition of forecasting

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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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