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Recent Examples of tiptoe
Sea thrift and marram grass fringe the dunes—while oystercatchers tiptoe along the tideline.
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Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
But according to the growing stack of legal paperwork, Hunsicker was not just tiptoeing across the line, but sprinting past it, doctoring audit reports, falsifying other documents, faking a screen shot of CaaStle’s bank accounts and overstating revenues by more than 7,300 percent.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 18 July 2025
The water had risen so high, Burgess tiptoed to keep her head above it.
—Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 6 July 2025
Mimi Davila shines in the titular role as a character who briefly tiptoes into various New Yorkers’ lives over the course of one trying day, observing everything around her with quiet patience and endeavoring to do her job (and keep her cool) against all odds.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 June 2025
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Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
But according to the growing stack of legal paperwork, Hunsicker was not just tiptoeing across the line, but sprinting past it, doctoring audit reports, falsifying other documents, faking a screen shot of CaaStle’s bank accounts and overstating revenues by more than 7,300 percent.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 18 July 2025
The water had risen so high, Burgess tiptoed to keep her head above it.
—Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 6 July 2025
Mimi Davila shines in the titular role as a character who briefly tiptoes into various New Yorkers’ lives over the course of one trying day, observing everything around her with quiet patience and endeavoring to do her job (and keep her cool) against all odds.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tiptoe
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The more often people talk about ghosting, the more people seem to ghost.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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Bosses fed up with candidate ghosting and combing through thousands of applications may have a new assistant for the gruelling selection process: using AI to interview the applicants.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
22 Aug. 2025
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The exchange is indicative of this odd, frustrating, occasionally intriguing project, which pads out scarce but real nuggets of insight with leading questions and endless clips.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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The lack of any real surprises or subversions along the way can be a drag, making the Prime Video miniseries feel a bit padded even at a relatively trim six hour-long episodes.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Tiptoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiptoe. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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