tipoffs

Example Sentences

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This is a very imperfect initiative, but some of these tipoffs might lead to stopping or even reversing the crimes that are being committed.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

The police have been slow to grasp such concepts, he added, and have largely still been reliant on tipoffs, 999 calls out of the blue, or terrorists making mistakes.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2019

In Mr. Klein’s world, the paparazzi that routinely bribe servers and slip weekly updated price lists to parking valets for celebrity tipoffs may be a necessary evil.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2019

The usual tipoffs about what a wave was going to do next—boils over shallow spots, the indications thirty or forty yards away of what’s in store for you—were all absent.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018

Dubious evaluations have also now shed their grammatical hilarity, although some tipoffs continue to amuse aficionados of the genre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2018