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tiptoed

verb

past tense of tiptoe

as in padded

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The Beacon-News) Callaway padded that lead after Maroa-Forsyth turned the ball over on downs, bobbling a screen pass from Vasquez before gathering it in and capping off a 77-yard reception for another TD.

— Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
Tatum remained in the game until the final minute of the third quarter with Boston up 42 as the Celtics padded their point differential numbers for the NBA Cup.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of padded

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And Europe, where retail traffic was weak this summer, which inched up 3 percent to $696 million.

— Evan Clark, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026
In the distance, the soaring statue of Marianne – the national symbol of France – got smaller and smaller as the march inched its way forward.

— Soph Warnes, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of inched

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For months now, so much vitriol crept into our TVs, interrupting the Bears or your favorite college football team with a special message from a super PAC or a partisan looking to score points by smearing their opponents.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
LePage’s decision to spend more time in Florida after leaving the governor’s mansion has also crept into the consideration of at least some voters following a drumbeat of attacks by Dunlap.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026

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On Friday, Northwood edged host Liberty 16-15 to reach the quarterfinals.

— Dan Albano, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026
In the team competition, Granada Hills edged Palisades by one stroke, 416-417, to end the Dolphins’ five-year reign, which was one short of the City record set by Granada Hills from 2001-06 and equaled by the Highlanders from 2011-16.

— Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of edged

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This year has both flown past and also crawled along at a snail’s pace.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.

— Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

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