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Recent Examples of toddle
On this trip back to the mountain village, children and chickens toddle around, and Elba scrubs laundry in an outdoor basin.
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Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025
The sight of hundreds of tiny turtle hatchlings toddling their way down to the lapping ocean waves is the surest way to take your breath away.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
As players cleared the court, Ares could be seen with his mom, toddling across the hardwood with a basketball in hand, chasing after loose balls and even giving dribbling a try before his dad scooped him up.
—Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 16 Oct. 2025
The cost of transport while flying works out to be about 36, but just 14 while crawling, meaning that the robot is more than twice as efficient while toddling along on the ground.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2016
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Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025
The sight of hundreds of tiny turtle hatchlings toddling their way down to the lapping ocean waves is the surest way to take your breath away.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
As players cleared the court, Ares could be seen with his mom, toddling across the hardwood with a basketball in hand, chasing after loose balls and even giving dribbling a try before his dad scooped him up.
—Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 16 Oct. 2025
The cost of transport while flying works out to be about 36, but just 14 while crawling, meaning that the robot is more than twice as efficient while toddling along on the ground.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toddle
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Models are tottering on the cobblestoned Bond Street with their heels getting stuck in the rivets.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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Now, even that tiny effort is tottering.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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The energy crisis has only amplified that business case as fuel prices lurch.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
29 May 2026
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Instead of thoughtful, adaptive action, characters lurch between hesitation and reckless decisions, with catastrophic results.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2026
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Chip stocks, however, stumbled; bitcoin is hovering at its weakest since the war began, private credit is throwing off sparks again — and a flesh-eating parasite has turned up in Texas.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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The goal of the game is to land the stunt successfully without stumbling.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
4 June 2026
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While the Blues entered the 2025/26 campaign with high hopes after lifting the Club World Cup, the team failed to live up to expectations, floundering in the Premier League and going through three different managers in the space of only a few months.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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Before Tan took over as CEO in March 2025 , the foundry business was floundering, trying to do many things at once.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
3 June 2026
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Hulst kept hammering lap after lap through the second mile but still could not shake Serna.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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Then stir or shake the solution until the sugar is completely dissolved.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2026
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Every neighborhood has its own part in the story too, as the nightlife nexus has migrated up and down Manhattan, shimmied across the East River and back, and transformed, faltered, and thrived again over the past six decades.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
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But, as talks have publicly faltered in the past week, both sides have launched fresh strikes.—
Freddie Clayton,
NBC news,
6 June 2026
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But she’s never wavered on making her business a success.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
7 June 2026
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There isn’t a full consensus that Dybantsa will go first, leaving room for the Washington Wizards to potentially waver over the decision.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
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“Toddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toddle. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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