tiptoe
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He is betting the Western alliance will be healthier if America’s allies candidly air their disagreements with the president, rather than tiptoe around him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 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
Despite their complaints, the twins are now transfixed by the ice cutters singing on the TV, so I tiptoe upstairs.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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
As the hearing ended, some of Mr Combs's supporters lingered at the door, on their tiptoes hoping to catch a sight of the rapper as he was escorted away.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
It couldn’t hurt to take a quick look, he thought, so he stood on his tiptoes and lifted the lid.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
Goddard has tiptoed into using AI to draft opinions, with her oversight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
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
And when asked, twice, whether he thought rates were high enough to bring inflation fully under control, he twice tiptoed around the question.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tiptoed less than 0.1% lower to 38,892.80, while the Nasdaq composite inched 5 points higher to 16,253.96.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
As quietly as he could, Nathan hummed the Change song and tiptoed forward.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
During my stay on the islands, I regularly found myself tiptoeing around sea lions lounging beside hotel entrances or ferry docks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
Once I started verbalizing my need for alone time, and stopped tiptoeing around his feelings, I found that our relationship started to improve — both on vacations and in day-to-day life too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
It feels to Marie-Laure as if they have wound these past four days toward the center of a bewildering maze, and now they are tiptoeing past the pickets of some final interior cell.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
