totter
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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
Mr Mohamed, from Poole, was working as a "totter", sorting waste by hand at the yard in Mannings Heath Road, the court heard.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022
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
I always said I didn’t have a wheel, I had a teeter totter, I had family and work.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2019
We pulled around a comer, and I felt myself totter uncertainly and then lean into the door.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
Coaxed and tugged by rangers, a blindfolded giraffe totters into the specialised vehicle that will transport it away from an increasingly hostile environment to a new home in Kenya's eastern Rift Valley.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
The tiger-skin-clad fellow at the center of “Mad Man” totters close to the ground, grasping the string of a skull-embellished balloon as if the orb will keep him upright — or sane.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
Ultimately it totters too far to one side, but there is still the primal nail-biting need to know what-the-hell-is-going-on.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2020
“If the state totters, those with nasty memories of life under the Taliban will fight on.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2019
She totters over to the bed, touches the comb, then pulls it from Charlotte's hair and squeezes it.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Sri Lanka has been gradually easing import restrictions, which were imposed as the country's economy tottered from a financial crisis caused by a severe shortage of dollars.
From Reuters ● Aug. 15, 2023
The first nine weeks of this season tottered into parity.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022
Lunch arrived soon afterwards with Balderson feasting on figures of 2-2-0-3, while Essex tottered on 34-4.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022
He knocked once more, and an elderly woman in blue slippers and a long coat tottered out the gate, a floral bonnet over her silver hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
He tottered back the way they had come.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
But just as the left-hander was getting going, Starc pounced again, trapping him lbw for 21 to leave England tottering on 33-2.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
He regularly held Saturday morning sessions with experts on the tottering Soviet empire and led the George H.W.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
The singer’s sweeping eyeliner, tottering heels and disheveled beehive are still instantly recognizable, 13 years after her death.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Rimal, the chubby-cheeked baby, recently began tottering around on her own two feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
All of this is a salutary lesson in the way tottering edifices of theology can be built on a small textual misunderstanding.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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