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tip

[tip] / tɪp /


NOUN
warning; useful hint or idea
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“Hood County should have been the tip of the spear,” she added.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

“So you have to tip your hat to them. We didn’t win the last three, four minutes, and it cost us. It’s a game of runs. They made the last run.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

But the leverage dynamics rhyme strongly, and Shin’s entire intellectual project has been to arrest leverage booms before they tip over.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

After his conviction, police said the complaints against Singh, whose practice was in Coatbridge health centre, were "the tip of the iceberg".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Swanburne alone was full of them, and that, they suspected, was only the tip of the iceberg.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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