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
  • Many of the dummies evolved admirably over the competition’s final hour, complete with fine laugh lines and subtle details like creeping wisps of nose hair, which were gingerly applied with tweezers and Krazy Glue.
    — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of creeping
Verb
  • Wallen has a pair of singles inching their way toward becoming top 10 smashes on the busiest radio tally in the nation.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of inching
Verb
  • They’re wrapped around thumbnails, crawling up ring fingernails, and shining with 3D dewdrops.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 27 July 2026
  • Fort Hood, Texas, one of the Army's largest bases, has closed one of its dining facilities after a video circulating on X appeared to show dozens of roaches crawling across the walls of the facility's kitchen.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of crawling
Verb
  • In a world edging towards an age of AI cyber attacks, access to capable and, crucially, reliable models will be essential.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 24 July 2026
  • Media also voted on preseason All-SEC teams, with Ole Miss’ Trinidad Chambliss edging Texas’ Arch Manning for first-team quarterback.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
Definition of edging
Verb
  • Swift, though, is adept at sneaking into places — including GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium — undetected.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026
  • Truelove was apprehended after sneaking into Rockefeller Center’s Studio 1A to search for 71-year-old Roker.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 20 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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