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

The newspaper group has denied the claims and insists that information in the 33 articles cited by the prince came from legal means, including other news reports, tipoffs and even official communications from Buckingham Palace.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023

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

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