tiptoe

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

Barabak: You’re having me tiptoe uncomfortably close to the Make A Prediction Zone, which I assiduously avoid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 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

I had to tiptoe halfway down the stairs to hear.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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 team approached this work almost on their tiptoes," he tells me.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

Emma had to stand on tiptoes to see the screen, which was suddenly full of one green bubble of words after another.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

He tiptoed around the house, the camera held out in front of him, sometimes for up to 10 minutes for a continuous shot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

The leaders tiptoed around thorny regional security issues like Taiwan and North Korea.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2024

So when the old woman finally nodded off, Ophie tiptoed out of the room and made a mad dash for the attic door at the end of the hallway.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

What followed for Louise was a feeling of "tiptoeing through someone else's grief" as the family navigated the loss of Bob, who she described as "bigger than life" and an "incredible family man".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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

It was always like that, like he was desperately tiptoeing through a field of buried explosives.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young