tiptoe
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If you can’t remember what it was like to try to tiptoe while swooning, your heart barely able to stay in your chest, you were never a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
We tiptoe through the darkness, the floorboards creaking loudly beneath our feet.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
Tamma tiptoes “up climbs with body english and devious footwork”; she clings to fingerholds the size of molars; a fall sees her come “cheesegrating” down a slab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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 team approached this work almost on their tiptoes," he tells me.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
He stood on tiptoes, reached the earrings, and added them.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
John Wollman tiptoed carefully around the issue of the Texas subpoena at the heart of the suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
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
Lady Constance tiptoed backward in horror until her back was pressed flat against the wall.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Any hope Gianni 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 disappeared on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
Instead, the strategic calculation appears to have been that you can fold some of the groypers back into mainstream conservativism, but only by tiptoeing around the flaws of their putative leaders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
He was tiptoeing back to the path, careful of every step.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
