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tipping

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verb

present participle of tip

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Recent Examples of tipping
Verb
But tipping everyone in the guides that circulate around this time of year means adding a couple dozen people to your gift budget. Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024 Inside our evolving tipping dilemma April 27, 2023 Democratic opponent Vice President Kamala Harris followed up with a similar no-tax-on-tips promise — also at a rally in Nevada, a critical swing state. Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024 Letting all his flamboyant acting chops loose without ever tipping into hamminess, Hwang is dynamite as a monstrous character whose combination of charisma, swaggering arrogance and sewer rat cunning inspires equal measures of fear and fealty among co-conspirators. Richard Kuipers, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024 What is the new etiquette for tipping? Malaka Gharib, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024 Instead, Buffalo receiver Mack Hollins recovered the kick by tipping the ball to himself before returning it 38 yards to the doorstep of the end zone. Andrew Greif, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024 Culturally, humankind has the moon to thank for inspiring the birth of religions, helping civilizations keep time and tipping the outcomes of brutal wars. Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024 Doing so reveals the real destination of the link in question, so tipping you off to any fraudulent intent. Davey Winder, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024 Thus, the prosecutions of Israeli officials will actually make war crimes more likely, by tipping the scales against liberal democracies. Eugene Kontorovich, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tipping
Adjective
  • One thing that stands out to me is the federal government’s seeming use of fear, confusion and uncertainty—combined with very nuanced language—to target individuals, agencies and companies who, in many cases, have been trying to do the right thing by leveling the uneven playing field of the past.
    Doug Melville, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Injuries have contributed to Canning’s uneven career.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The official seizure seals hung crooked across the front gate, half-unstuck.
    Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
  • From background to foreground, the painting depicts a haloed Virgin Mary, a young Jesus standing between her knees, St. Jerome asleep on the ground, and St. John the Baptist, clad sparsely in animal skins, pointing a crooked finger toward the figures behind him.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Multiple heavyweights are going to declare in Fall of 2026, so why not get a jump on them and have the Left-leaning media all to yourself?
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • But even as a new-look roster led USC to its first Sweet 16 since 1994, head coach Lindsay Gottlieb’s most critical offseason acquisition might be the coach leaning over a black clipboard at the end of the bench.
    Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Despite missing both of their top scorers — Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner — due to oblique injuries, the Magic mucked the game up early and often.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Arch stepped in and started three games this season when Quinn Ewers got hurt and missed time with an oblique injury.
    Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Tipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tipping. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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