tiptoe

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Recent Examples of tiptoe And, as with Game 6, an unlikely contributor must tiptoe out of the shadows. Troy Renck, Denver Post, 17 May 2025 Jacksonville Jaguars First pick: WR/CB Travis Hunter First-year GM James Gladstone didn’t tiptoe into the job. Josh Kendall, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025 Between that year and 2024, however, the participation rate tiptoed up to 50%. Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025 And as another disappointing season nears its conclusion, one featuring 38 different starting lineups for Charlotte, the Hornets are tiptoeing on a balance beam, teetering on the brink of putting themselves in the best position possible to get a game-changer. Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tiptoe
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Verb
  • The band's dissolution was hastened by Stone's drug abuse, which led to a pattern of ghosting his own shows.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • President Trump ghosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a recent G7 summit in Canada, and the two leaders are not expected to meet formally at The Hague.
    Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • And this time, our impact wasn’t padding packers or improving the bottom line but creating a tangible difference in the lives of thousands of struggling families.
    Rachelle Rutherford, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Over the span of about a half a day, the jailer said, 53 inmates used the glitch to pad their commissary accounts, which can be used to buy things like food items and toiletries and to fund phone calls and other communications with the outside world.
    Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 30 June 2025

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“Tiptoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiptoe. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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