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

Police are investigating why tipoffs from the public in the run-up to the party were reportedly ignored.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2020

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

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