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Recent Examples of tippy
In Kay Thompson’s famed 1950s book series, the famed blonde character lived in a room on the tippy top floor of the Plaza in New York with her pug, Weenie, and pet turtle, Skipperdee.
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Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
Paired with the haptic feedback of the controller, which vibrates in tandem with each tippy tappy step and hefty blow, Astro’s character model feels tangible and heavy with real-world weight.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
Over the next two decades, Leger’s builds, ranging from 12 to 40 feet, attracted middle-class day boaters who wanted something that was less tippy on seas than a monohull.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024
One whose most recent sales price works out to about $10,000 per square foot — the very tippy top of the luxury residential market, about what penthouse in trophy towers go for.
—Ronald S. Lauder Sold His Tiny Philip Johnson Home, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
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Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
Paired with the haptic feedback of the controller, which vibrates in tandem with each tippy tappy step and hefty blow, Astro’s character model feels tangible and heavy with real-world weight.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
Over the next two decades, Leger’s builds, ranging from 12 to 40 feet, attracted middle-class day boaters who wanted something that was less tippy on seas than a monohull.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024
One whose most recent sales price works out to about $10,000 per square foot — the very tippy top of the luxury residential market, about what penthouse in trophy towers go for.
—Ronald S. Lauder Sold His Tiny Philip Johnson Home, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tippy
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Darkly tipsy aromas that include rum, fruit cake, maraschino cherries, slight petrol and carrot cake.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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An arrangement by Thomas Adès of Conlon Nancarrow’s Study No. 6, one of his ingenious player-piano exercises, somehow transformed complex rhythmic layerings into a blithe, tipsy rumba.—
Zachary Woolfe,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Asteroids, also known as minor planets, are rocky, airless objects that originated from the early formation of our solar system approximately 4.6 billion years ago.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a frozen, white sphere, its rocky surface buried kilometers under ice.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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His commitment to America's European allies is shaky at best, and nobody in their right minds still believes that Trump would endanger New York or Washington to attack—let alone to nuke—Moscow or Saint Petersburg in defense of Warsaw or Paris.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Several momentum stocks that are part of the artificial intelligence trade have been shaky since the emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek in late January.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2025
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Between the lines: Mayors have long used bond issues for city maintenance, but part of the fight here — and this gets a little wonky — is about the type of bond and how it's repaid.—
Monica Eng,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Unlike Gundam, which has many games (most of which can be rather underwhelming), Cowboy Bebop has only two to date: a weird shmup on the PSone and a functionally wonky action game on the PlayStation 2.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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At the same time, the resumption of hostilities in Syria could change everything, and the Russian military could suddenly find itself in a precarious and vulnerable position.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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As a woman traveling alone, who is also four months pregnant, Alex quickly finds herself in one of the most precarious positions an immigrant seeking to be accepted into the U.S. could find themselves in during this time period in America’s history.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Tippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tippy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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