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toddled

verb

past tense of toddle

as in lurched

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The insurrection drew immediate and obvious parallels to the United States, which, during much of the past decade, has lurched alongside Brazil through a strange hall of mirrors.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
And there was a frenzy as one man, grimacing and sweating, lurched along pulling a truck with a rope.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

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Despite massive searches, his whereabouts remained a mystery until June of that year when a group of local hikers stumbled upon a boot, some bones and a driver’s license with a familiar face.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
Gunn and Safran started off with the successful launch of a new Superman movie last year but then stumbled big with Supergirl, a critical and commercial bomb.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2026

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Like a lot of us who tottered into consciousness in the second half of the 20th century, Les Claypool grew up with cartoons from the family television beaming into his retinas.

— Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026
Outside, a gull tottered to the window and tapped its beak against the glass.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of tottered

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Nvidia’s stock already took a beating from a wider reversal in chip stocks as US voters’ protests against data centers shook confidence in the market’s AI trade.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
Nacua shook off a couple of drops to make big plays, especially on critical fourth downs and on a seven-yard touchdown catch early in the fourth quarter.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026

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After injuries cut short his NFL career, Hawkins floundered in search of his next phase.

— Dana ONeil, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026
Four months later Sand and her twenty-six-year-old medico also returned to Paris, whereupon their relationship promptly floundered.

— Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

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