Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tiptoeing
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Perhaps this isn’t new—Star Wars has been taking small moments from the original trilogy and padding them out for decades now—almost everything seen on screen in those first three films has been resurrected, fleshed out with backstories and unnecessary details.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026 -
The stock closed at a record high of $237 — padding out year-to-date gains to 117%.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
6 May 2026
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The vote comes as communities around the country debate how to handle increasingly large data centers creeping into populated areas.—
Mary Ramsey
Updated June 8,
Charlotte Observer,
9 June 2026
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With summer finally creeping into New England, the humidity was high and the rain was occasionally intense.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 June 2026
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The Evans and Rosedale Urban Village project in Fort Worth is inching closer to a potential summer groundbreaking.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2026
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But the fly has broken through control efforts in Central America and has been inching closer.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 June 2026
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Wrigley Field West, aka Coors Field, was crawling with Cubs fans on Tuesday night.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
11 June 2026
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He was found on Thursday morning, crawling towards Base Camp, and airlifted to Kathmandu, where doctors are treating him for frostbite, severe dehydration and a fractured thigh bone.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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Other regulators are edging toward the same idea.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Headquartered in Las Vegas, Capriotti’s is steadily edging into the Boise area.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
12 June 2026
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While that move threatened a major energy price shock, trade flows have since reorientated, governments have taken emergency measures, and a growing stream of oil is now sneaking out of the waterway under cover of darkness.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
12 June 2026
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More volumes sneaking out of the Middle East via pipeline and the Gulf also are contributing.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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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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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
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In the official teaser, Lowen is slinking around the Crawford family house wearing a silk robe while Verity is fast asleep in bed.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Tiptoeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiptoeing. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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