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totters

  • present tense form of totter (3rd person singular).

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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

At this point, the film totters into a redemptive sentimentality that wouldn’t even play if it were made to seem more earned.

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2017

The lithe Alan Naylor, in drag as the rapacious talent agent Sylvia St. Croix, sets the frothy tone as he totters on high heels and wearing fur.

From Washington Post Oct. 18, 2016

I am sitting in a corridor in a London hotel when Cara Delevingne - internationally recognised supermodel, budding actress and ubiquitous tabloid darling - totters past me on vertiginous stiletto heels.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2015

I open my mouth to say something, anything, but then two- year-old William Jr. totters in.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett