tiptoe
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When Eucharistic ministers moved through aisles to distribute Communion, they had to tiptoe around knees and handbags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Put all together, investors may remain understandably uneasy about the topic, even if they start to tiptoe back into oversold areas.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
We tiptoe around finances because we’ve been programmed by society to link our personal value to our financial status.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
Now, she’s a mom on the edge, a woman resigned to life’s fringes, where she must tiptoe around live grenades so as not to make anything worse.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025
But he makes my eight hidden Jews have to whisper and tiptoe, even with the chickens, and that makes them testy.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
That mordant humor, however enjoyable, tiptoes around the unanswerable question of how, or even whether, we can tell the difference between cosplay and the real thing.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
On that overcast morning with the F-150, Hummel stood on his tiptoes and reached both arms overhead into the tight crevices under the pickup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Behind them, a slim figure reaches up on tiptoes, but the 1-month pad is still out of her reach.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
The ghost isn’t as hostile as a mother who lets her daughter flounder, or as a husband who tiptoes off to call lawyers about a possible legal separation rather than communicate with his wife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
I ran on my tiptoes to the cabin and eased the door open.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
That first morning, with coffee in hand, I tiptoed into the lounge, sank into an armchair and watched the desert sprawl while wispy clouds clung to the horizon under a brightening sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
We didn’t say “shame” out loud, but we tiptoed around it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
But having tiptoed cautiously throughout its first year in office, the question is whether this government can convince those potential investors that the economic vision is real?
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
Eyal Ben-Ari tugged at the heavy assault rifle hanging over his shoulder as he tiptoed out of his pink house at sunrise, hoping not to wake his wife or six children.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2024
He crawled out of his bed, tiptoed across the room, and kneeled down on mine.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
Any hope Infantino might have had of tiptoeing away from the scene of his World Cup private-investment wreckage having sustained only minor damage to his reputation has been obliterated.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Goldman board members and partners had grown accustomed to tiptoeing around the topic of Ruemmler and Epstein in front of Solomon, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Investors tiptoeing back into Chinese stocks may want to consider companies that would benefit both from the rise of AI and a potential effort by Beijing to boost consumption.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
“Be back in a minute,” Peggy Jo told her mother, tiptoeing past her room.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
She was in no mood for tiptoeing around the little girl’s whims right now.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
