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tiptoe

adjective as in walking on toes

verb as in to walk cautiously or stealthily

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They watched Walker Buehler tiptoe in and out of danger over four scoreless innings, the right-hander managing to get enough swing-and-miss to compensate for his spotty command.

Sometimes, I would tiptoe into the living room, careful not to make a noise, and lie on the ground watching whatever was showing.

One cut has been delivered, and they will slowly tiptoe their way to some more cuts over the course of the next year.

From BBC

An annual gathering in Budapest of the Conservative Political Action Committee, a Trump-aligned American organization, has had to tiptoe around the issue of China and focus instead on building what its most recent edition last month declared a “coalition of pro-peace, antiglobalist forces.”

I tiptoe through the woods so the leaves don’t crackle under my feet.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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