tipoffs

Example Sentences

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One of the tipoffs, says the FTC, is when they specify the method of payment.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

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

In a prototype of the surveillance state, she instigated policies to encourage informants, installing metal boxes on the sides of administrative buildings for anonymous tipoffs.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018