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Recent Examples of tippy
Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart and slowly raise your heels off the ground, coming up onto your tippy toes.
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Jakob Roze, Health, 26 Dec. 2025
Videos taken from the Aug. 27 concert show the former Fifth Harmony member balancing on her tippy toes after the high heel of one of her boots broke off.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But bonds are a lot less risky than today’s tippy toppy S&P 500.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Rumbold remembers standing on his tippy toes to interview 7-6 Manute Bol, the Whalers trials and travails, the UConn championships, high school highlights and the state’s later Little League champs among the many favorite stories.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
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Jakob Roze, Health, 26 Dec. 2025
Videos taken from the Aug. 27 concert show the former Fifth Harmony member balancing on her tippy toes after the high heel of one of her boots broke off.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But bonds are a lot less risky than today’s tippy toppy S&P 500.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Rumbold remembers standing on his tippy toes to interview 7-6 Manute Bol, the Whalers trials and travails, the UConn championships, high school highlights and the state’s later Little League champs among the many favorite stories.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tippy
Adjective
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Fix wobbly furniture or handrails, or ask a friend or family member to help.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
12 May 2026
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The Minnesota Wild’s big guns showed up in a big way Saturday night, and the Avs looked wobbly for the first time in this tournament in a 5-1 loss in Game 3 at Grand Casino Arena.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
10 May 2026
Adjective
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Of course, no seder would be complete without everyone sitting at the table at the end of the night, totally stuffed and maybe a little tipsy, to chat and gossip about everyday life.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
24 Apr. 2026
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At a tipsy, intimate dinner with two of their friends mere nights before the wedding, Emma reveals the worst thing she’s ever done.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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After a rocky run under AT&T, WarnerMedia was then merged with Discovery Communications in a $43 billion deal that closed in 2022.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
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After a rocky start to their courtship, Kristen teaches the skateboard-loving, aquaphobic young man the art — and colonial history — of surfing.—
Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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Carlos Rodon will take the hill today and look to improve on his shaky first outing.—
David Troy,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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Marleen Gorris tried with her shaky 1997 film starring Vanessa Redgrave as the titular protagonist and Rupert Graves as the tragic Septimus.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
Adjective
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Ostensibly set in Los Angeles (although the local geography is wonky as hell), the film is largely told from the point of view of shy, artistic teenager AJ (voiced by Will Sharpe), who is coaxed out of his shell by his best friend Cisco (Alejandro Antionio Ruiz).—
Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
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Still, things were at times wonky.—
Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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Hollywood is in a precarious place.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
12 May 2026
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While white collar jobs, particularly those highly exposed to AI, seem more precarious by the day, AI’s infrastructure needs to have Huang and others pointing to the roles traditionally considered blue collar as perhaps the wise choice for new grads.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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“Tippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tippy. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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