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totter

[tot-er] / ˈtɒt ər /


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She watches a humanoid robot totter around a demonstration kitchen until it trips on a chair and clatters to the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Sun, moon, grizzly, black, spectacled, sloth: Bears all over the world can stand, shuffle, totter and walk on two legs, though they usually prefer four.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Next we made a short descent to totter over tide pools, marveling at neon-green anemones, until a hefty spray of salty water showered us from the spouting horn of Thor’s Well.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

Between weeks two and three, they learn to stand, totter around like furry drunks, then walk steadily.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

The organisms killed might, for all we know, be at the base of a vast ecological pyramid at the top of which totter we.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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