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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tiptoeing
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The stock closed at a record high of $237 — padding out year-to-date gains to 117%.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
6 May 2026 -
From his earliest days as an agent, Meredith proudly flouted industry convention while inflating his own reputation and padding his bank account.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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Inflation rates are creeping above average wage increases, and could stay there until the situation in Iran is resolved.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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For people with creeping cholesterol levels, a healthier diet can go a long way.—
Gavin Escott,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Visa, Mastercard, and Citi are inching toward genuinely open positions in Chinese payments and banking.—
Drew Bernstein,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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So yes, the Cavaliers are inching closer to shedding those mentally and physically soft labels.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
14 May 2026
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Amazon won a court order to block the AI-agents from crawling its sites in March.—
Michelle Castillo,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Sacramento County health inspectors closed four restaurants this week, including Carmichael’s Royal Cuisine, where a live nymph cockroach was found crawling on the salt and pepper shakers.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
16 May 2026
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Heighten your garden designs by edging planting beds and pathways with flowering annuals and perennials.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
19 May 2026
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Stock futures dipped Sunday as investors were forced to confront the inconvenient reality that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed with oil markets edging closer to a cliff’s edge.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
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Christie is preparing to launch a mysterious new line of suits, at a hundred thousand dollars apiece, a plan that the three women catch wind of when Corvette actually manages to get a foot in the door—by sneaking into Christie’s apartment.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
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After about a year at the park and sneaking onto a field with American-style uprights at Kanda University, where some of his friends went to school, Matsuzawa wanted to make his project more serious.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
15 May 2026
Verb
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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 24 May. 2026.
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