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Recent Examples of toddleTwo tall sandhill crane parents strutted through the marsh, their downy red colt toddling behind them.—Anne Readel, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2025 His grandson toddled over, climbed into his lap, accepted a kiss with a screech of delight, and scooted off again.—Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025 Giants left-hander Kyle Harrison, who is 18 days older than Birdsong, said a typical day for him in 2005 probably involved toddling or playing with toy blocks.—Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025 Presently, my then-one-year-old son toddled into the room and proceeded to smear his sticky hands all over the walls of our den.—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for toddle
On the floor, waist-high piles of books tottered like miniature leaning towers of Pisa.
My father has always been an avid learner and reader.
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The Christian Science Monitor,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 June 2025
As Joe Biden tottered and fell (literally as well as metaphorically), more than a few pundits compared him to Lear, a man who was ruined by age, pride, and the flattery of sycophants.
On Halloween of 2022, just weeks into the new school year, senior Ehni Ler Htoo was making his way through the halls of Proctor High School in Utica, New York, when a fellow student lurched at him from behind, repeatedly plunging a 9-inch hunting knife into his back.
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Tonya Simpson,
ABC News,
24 Sep. 2025
Despite that notable change, watching One Battle After Another is much like the experience of reading Pynchon, who lurches from high comedy to stomach-turning naturalism and punctuates plot-heavy sequences with little grace notes of character portraiture.
But there have been some career stumbles recently, a superhero disappointment in particular, that must have complicated Johnson’s conception of his remarkable career.
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Richard Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
Wallen then stumbles to his feet in the middle of the road, as rain pours down, with close-up images showing Wallen in tattered clothes and covered in scrapes and cuts.
Florida football had just been outclassed by a program — Miami — that hired a coach in the same 2022 cycle UF did, and similarly struggled to jump-start its rebuild, having likewise floundered in recent years, despite its historic pedigree.
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Noah White,
Miami Herald,
24 Sep. 2025
Alexis Ohanian realized early on that traditional approaches to generating buzz were floundering in the digital age.
After 30 minutes or so, pause the machine, remove the comforter, and shake it out before adding it back to the drum, continuing the process until the bedding is fully dry.
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Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
The earthquake shook at a depth of just 3 miles, with its epicenter approximately 10 miles south of Trona.
Max Verstappen's victories in the last two Grands Prix have brought him back into the championship fight, although the 69-point gap to Piastri can only be achieved if McLaren falters on every race weekend.
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Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
Years later, Rick Ankiel, a Cardinals pitcher, could no longer throw strikes—yet, when he was moved to the outfield, his accuracy rarely faltered from a greater distance.
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