tiptoe
Example Sentences
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Even as Mr. Roberts warned Monday about antisemitism on “far fringes of the right,” he remained on his tiptoes when it came to Mr. Carlson, who launders Jew-loathing to the mainstream.
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.
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
“It definitely just feels like we have to tiptoe around things, which I think gets in the way of having productive conversations in class,” Woodson said.
From Salon
Like Carrie’s playful tiptoe stride through the streets in heels, the show pranced around topics that, had it walked through them with intention, would have given the series traces of its former self.
From Los Angeles Times
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