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Recent Examples of tippy
There’s a bunch of weirdos in a building wearing tutus and standing on their tippy toes.
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Zoe G. Phillips, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025
Or, close your eyes, reach your arms overhead and lift up on the tippy toes of both feet.
—Katy Bowman, NPR, 13 Apr. 2025
Suzanne Couples, Fred’s wife, rose to her tippy toes to look over the gallery.
—Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
This brand-new suite spans three floors at the tippy top of the Mata Atlantica Tower, with unbeatable floor-to-ceiling views over the sprawling Brazilian metropolis.
—Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2025
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Zoe G. Phillips, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025
Or, close your eyes, reach your arms overhead and lift up on the tippy toes of both feet.
—Katy Bowman, NPR, 13 Apr. 2025
Suzanne Couples, Fred’s wife, rose to her tippy toes to look over the gallery.
—Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
This brand-new suite spans three floors at the tippy top of the Mata Atlantica Tower, with unbeatable floor-to-ceiling views over the sprawling Brazilian metropolis.
—Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tippy
Adjective
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The result feels like a cavalier stunt—an audio-documentary shrine erected on a wobbly visual-narrative foundation.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Jan. 2026
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Kentucky’s wobbly path to the NCAA Tournament just got a whole lot more uncertain.—
Brendan Marks,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Social media users, meanwhile, could not get enough of the two getting tipsy on-air and giggling through the night.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
2 Jan. 2026
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Read on to learn why experts say drinking on a plane can spark symptoms beyond feeling tipsy, and make the comedown that much worse.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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After a rocky two years, the luxury industry is expected to carry its third-quarter recovery into Q4, despite some tough comparables.—
Laure Guilbault,
Vogue,
15 Jan. 2026
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The result has been a pretty rocky season.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Even 30 years ago, the Court’s view rested on shaky empirical foundations.—
Paul Rosenzweig,
The Atlantic,
12 Jan. 2026
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Williams delivered after a shaky start, throwing for 361 yards and the two late touchdowns.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Tree silhouettes turn Seussian as their branches and canopies disappear into wonky green blobs.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
10 Dec. 2025
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Jittery drum programming and shrouding reverb screams Minneapolis in the ‘80s, but the wonky thump and the multiplicity of vocal tracks are just as suggestive of D’Angelo or the raw pain of a Frank Ocean.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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After a difficult and financially precarious adolescence, he was discovered by fashion designer Thierry Mugler, who encouraged him to get into modelling.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 Jan. 2026
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Rubio will either sink or swim in his precarious position.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Tippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tippy. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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