1
: a rope or wire stretched taut for acrobats to perform on
2
: a dangerously precarious situation
—usually used in the phrase walk a tightrope
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The anti-spam protections put in place for Gmail will always walk something of a tightrope between stopping enough spam, a leading distribution channel for malicious actors, and stopping too much genuine email.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Many walk a tightrope with fears of succumbing to the cancel culture.
—Simone E. Morris, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
China has walked a diplomatic tightrope throughout the Russia-Ukraine war.
—Evelyn Cheng,anniek Bao, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
Pundits admired the speech for walking the tightrope of a fraught moment—coming up the middle—with confidence and control.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Many walk a tightrope with fears of succumbing to the cancel culture.
—Simone E. Morris, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
China has walked a diplomatic tightrope throughout the Russia-Ukraine war.
—Evelyn Cheng,anniek Bao, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
Pundits admired the speech for walking the tightrope of a fraught moment—coming up the middle—with confidence and control.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Tightrope.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tightrope. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
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tightrope
noun
tight·rope
-ˌrōp 
: a rope or wire stretched tight for acrobats to perform on
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