toddle

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Recent Examples of toddle At one point after six hours, Carmel toddled around the room in the dark, accidentally stepped on something, and started to cry. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024 The father-son duo can be seen hanging out on the beach, with DDG on a lounge chair and Halo toddling around in the sand. Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 23 July 2024 In the video, Phoenix toddled between his mom and dad while Hilton posed for a photoshoot. Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 4 July 2024 Grant Park will always toddle on the tightrope of making the festival free and open to all while satisfying the ticket buyers who make that possible. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for toddle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toddle
Verb
  • The country’s economy is tottering and reliant on IMF bailouts, while the powerful military is entrenched in every aspect of life, according to its critics.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • If the bottom falls out of, say, the Chinese real-estate market—among the largest asset classes in the world—the entire global economy could totter.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Paranoid – Black Sabbath If Black Sabbath was the birth of doom, Paranoid was the moment the monster lurched to its feet, six stories tall and stomping toward the future of heavy music.
    Darryn King, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Still, the cost is low compared with historical home prices that saw fast growth after the Great Recession then lurched further skyward during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The main character, a married artist in her mid-forties, sets out from her Los Angeles home, stumbles into a psychosexual dynamic with a young rental-car attendee, and decides to remodel a motel room into a love nest.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Everything will then be sold – unless he’s stumbled across a famous ball.
    Don Riddell, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Efforts to create an EU presidency also floundered in a swamp of competing power centers and polysyllabic titles.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The 36-year-old Moore will join an organization that has floundered since the retirement of quarterback Drew Brees and departure of Super Bowl-winning coach Sean Payton.
    Brett Martel, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • For some in the room, Paul’s rebellion reflected their deep unease over Trump’s protectionism, which has rattled stock markets, shaken consumer confidence, and strained America’s relationships with its allies.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
  • No doubt, with the S&P 500 piercing correction territory (10% decline from the highs) on Thursday, traders aren’t shaking things off as well as Scott Bessent.
    John Buckingham, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Why do so many organizations falter in executing their strategies?
    Forrester, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • However, the Northern Irishman’s blazing play would falter a bit, bogeying the 14th hole while Spaun birdied the 14th and 16th holes.
    Jacob Lev, CNN, 16 Mar. 2025

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“Toddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toddle. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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