tiptoeing
- present participle of tiptoe.
Example Sentences
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Investors tiptoeing back into Chinese stocks may want to consider companies that would benefit both from the rise of AI and a potential effort by Beijing to boost consumption.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
“Be back in a minute,” Peggy Jo told her mother, tiptoeing past her room.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Melina Abdullah, a college professor and prominent civil rights activist, blasted McDonnell for tiptoeing around the incident in his regular department briefing, refusing to call the comments “racist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
At the ballet, in operas, on the concert stage, lilting, driving, whirling, tiptoeing, leaping, gliding, jumping, gyrating and twirling, Russian music can’t get enough of it.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
