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tip

[tip] / tɪp /


NOUN
warning; useful hint or idea
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I came across a post on Threads this week with this prompt: “Tell me your best ‘nobody tells travelers’ this tip.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Or, if you prefer softer spuds, Danny also has a genius tip for leveling up your potato salad.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

Pro tip: Have them read the best kinds of literature, like this novel.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

That could be a tip for future cases involving influencers, Agostino said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Maytag applied chalk to the tip of his cue.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

It was the kind of unabashedly earnest moment that could easily have tipped into awkwardness, but many in the room seemed to embrace it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

At PMQs, Badenoch also raised comments from economist and cross-bench peer Lord Jim O'Neill, who had been tipped to become Burnham's chief economic adviser, but who ruled out joining Burnham's government.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

I wanted it dark, fudgy and almost absurdly moist, with shredded zucchini and big pockets of bittersweet chocolate — but not so moist that the whole enterprise tipped into gummy.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

It was around this time that a former colleague at Cambridge got in touch and tipped Cofnas off about Arday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The quad was exactly where Chase had parked it, though it had tipped over.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Read: This could be the 10-year Treasury’s tipping point into the danger zone.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

The tipping point, they wrote, was when debt reached 90% of gross domestic product.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Mr. Kirsch identifies the tipping point as December 2017, when footage of strange aerial phenomena leaked from the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

In New York, vegetarian restaurant Dirt Candy was one of the very first to ban tipping back in 2015.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

The torn projection struggled to glow, colors bleeding and fritzing, the shape struggling to animate, but Brigit didn't take her eyes off the beautiful lady tipping her hat.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton




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