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tip

[tip] / tɪp /


NOUN
warning; useful hint or idea
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Or, if you prefer softer spuds, Danny also has a genius tip for leveling up your potato salad.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

The kind of tip that makes someone say: ‘WHY did nobody tell me that before?’

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The department had initially intercepted and inspected the shipment at the port based on a tip received by its counterfeit and piracy enforcement team, the department said in the release.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Four men have so far been arrested in connection with the illegal waste tip at Kidlington.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Lady Constance poked at the tulip bulbs with her parasol’s sharp tip.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

Or maybe Harp’s relationship with Trump really hasn’t tipped into romance.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

Bessent hasn’t tipped his hand as to exactly what he or President Donald Trump would target in their new effort.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

He tipped the ladder sideways and edged it through the door.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

However, the rise has yet to reach a tipping point, he added.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 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

“Good afternoon, ma’am,” says the patch, tipping his hat and picking his way carefully across the ruined garden.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen




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