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verb

past tense of tip

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of tipped
Verb
While many local governments are leading the way with higher minimum wages, tipped workers still often earn less than the regular wage, the think tank notes. Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2025 The chart below highlights minimum wages in 2024 and 2025, including tipped wages, their most recent increases, and the factors driving these changes. Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2025 The betting line has more than doubled as the scales have tipped to more Hokies than Gophers players expected to be out. Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2025 Finnish officials discovered the food after Swedish customs officials tipped them off to a cargo shipment and abnormalities in customs documents. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025 The Herald was also tipped off about letters that had been sent to Fernandez Rundle concerning new allegations against Kamlet that were also inexplicably not part of his case file. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025 Switching to the higher-resolution ultra-wide camera would bring the S25 Ultra in line with Google’s Pixel 9 Pro, which uses a 48-megapixel ultra-wide camera, and potentially with Apple’s 2025 iPhone 16 Pro, which is hotly tipped to undergo a similar ultra-wide camera upgrade. Paul Monckton, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 The end of that era should be celebrated, but this calling out of the loudmouths, oddballs, misogynists and gropers may have tipped into an overly condemnatory age. Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 31 Dec. 2024 The Noughties trend has tipped from the odd kitsch diamante halter top or ironic Juicy Couture re-wear into a full-on revival—but with iPhones instead of Razrs. Daisy Jones, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipped
Adjective
  • Sources have also said that Butler is frustrated with his role in the Heat’s offense this season and was caught off guard by Riley’s pointed public comments this past offseason.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Some took that remark as an innocent allusion to her job promoting fresh produce; others saw it as a pointed comment on a longtime epithet for gay men.
    Anita Gates, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Rookie Dalton Knecht, a glaring defensive liability at times, has seen his minutes decrease over the past month as the Lakers have leaned more into the defense of Max Christie, Gabe Vincent and Cam Reddish on the perimeter.
    Jovan Buha, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The Knicks, by contrast, leaned heavily on their starters once again.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Wartime letters sent by my father to my mother at her family home in Chicago, written in his own hand on Navy letterhead, the precise print of an engineer, angled slightly to the right.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Midcentury tissue box covers feature clerestory windows, angled rooflines,and patterned concrete block designs.
    Eric Noll, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Tipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tipped. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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