tiptoeing

verb

present participle of tiptoe
as in padding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tiptoeing
  1. padding
  2. creeping
  3. inching
  4. crawling
  5. edging
  6. sneaking
  7. ghosting
  8. slinking
Verb
  • Financial advisers aren't just dispensing help on investments and padding a nest egg anymore.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 18 July 2026
  • Summer footwear is everything, whether you’re headed to the pool, running errands, or just padding around the house.
    — Sarah Scott, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2026
Definition of padding
Verb
  • The surge in short interest coincides with a decidedly bearish sentiment creeping into what had been a relentlessly bullish AI trade.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
  • Cameron doesn't waste a second of that time, however, establishing characters (see above), introducing Newt, showing off the geography of the Hadley's Hope terraforming base, and building a creeping sense of dread.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of creeping
Verb
  • With Snell working back and Tyler Glasnow inching closer to facing live hitters, the Dodgers’ brass hopes to have their starting staff back at full strength by late August.
    — Katie Woo, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • The fitness legend began inching back into the spotlight in 2024 and was working on a Broadway musical of his life story at the time of his death.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
Definition of inching
Verb
  • The only person who isn’t happy to see a trash panda crawling into her home is Kesha, who posted a video of herself trying to keep out a raccoon.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 July 2026
  • One thing that Antetokounmpo doesn’t like about South Florida, though, are the iguanas crawling around.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
Definition of crawling
Verb
  • Football won that day, with Spain edging it in extra time via the game’s only goal, and the same happened here.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • The pair split the first two reps of the best-of-three final, but Wilson was awarded the win by edging past Sonnenberg with an inside move on the final rep.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2026
Definition of edging
Verb
  • The facing page depicts a mother, fearful, sneaking away to protect her new child.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
  • Her grandmother is sneaking out at night, and even shows up to Jazz’s school as a substitute.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
Definition of sneaking
Verb
  • The more often people talk about ghosting, the more people seem to ghost.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Definition of ghosting
Verb
  • At night, guard dogs and surveillance teams monitor the grounds year-round, because catastrophe at Wimbledon comes in the form of a two-foot-long fox slinking onto a court and marking its territory.
    — Nick Pachelli, Time, 11 July 2026
  • Once the performers appear, slinking in from the sides of the stage, the show firmly takes shape and eases smoothly from one episode from the Gospels to the next.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
Definition of slinking
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