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Recent Examples of tippy
Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart and slowly raise your heels off the ground, coming up onto your tippy toes.
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Jakob Roze, Health, 26 Dec. 2025
Videos taken from the Aug. 27 concert show the former Fifth Harmony member balancing on her tippy toes after the high heel of one of her boots broke off.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But bonds are a lot less risky than today’s tippy toppy S&P 500.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Rumbold remembers standing on his tippy toes to interview 7-6 Manute Bol, the Whalers trials and travails, the UConn championships, high school highlights and the state’s later Little League champs among the many favorite stories.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
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Jakob Roze, Health, 26 Dec. 2025
Videos taken from the Aug. 27 concert show the former Fifth Harmony member balancing on her tippy toes after the high heel of one of her boots broke off.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But bonds are a lot less risky than today’s tippy toppy S&P 500.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Rumbold remembers standing on his tippy toes to interview 7-6 Manute Bol, the Whalers trials and travails, the UConn championships, high school highlights and the state’s later Little League champs among the many favorite stories.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tippy
Adjective
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The 2 ¼-inch wedge heel, combined with the ½-inch platform, gives you just enough height to look dressed up without feeling wobbly or unstable.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
20 Apr. 2026
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My figures have two noses, two pairs of wobbly lips and lopsided torsos that often lean precariously to one side.—
Gabe Montesanti,
PEOPLE,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Of course, no seder would be complete without everyone sitting at the table at the end of the night, totally stuffed and maybe a little tipsy, to chat and gossip about everyday life.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
24 Apr. 2026
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At a tipsy, intimate dinner with two of their friends mere nights before the wedding, Emma reveals the worst thing she’s ever done.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Despite the president’s rocky relationship with some Supreme Court justices, all of the conservative members attended.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Snorkeling is popular at the ends of the beach, where visitors can swim among fish darting between rocky outcrops and seagrass beds.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Caitlin Clark had a shaky return to WNBA action on Saturday after her season-ending injury last year.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Two weeks into the shaky, uncertain ceasefire, a form of normality has returned to the streets of Tehran.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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This control scheme can get a little wonky with the mist attachment, as the ChillPill didn’t always recognize it during testing.—
Andrew Gebhart,
PC Magazine,
18 Apr. 2026
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And the lines were kind of wonky and weird and sort of like punchlines.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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People that maybe have a more precarious position in the industry and are worried and see AI as a threat — which is absolutely valid — and younger people, younger actors and musicians.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
29 Apr. 2026
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Exhausted and bearing the brunt of Cuba’s precarious economic situation, the elderly wander from place to place, carrying the bags that Cubans customarily take everywhere in the hope of being lucky enough to buy something to eat.—
Sarah Moreno
Updated April 29,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Tippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tippy. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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