tiptoe

“The art is to tiptoe up to the edge of what’s possible.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Put all together, investors may remain understandably uneasy about the topic, even if they start to tiptoe back into oversold areas.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

We tiptoe around finances because we’ve been programmed by society to link our personal value to our financial status.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026

Now, she’s a mom on the edge, a woman resigned to life’s fringes, where she must tiptoe around live grenades so as not to make anything worse.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025

I tiptoe down to the kitchen and make myself some toast.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

That mordant humor, however enjoyable, tiptoes around the unanswerable question of how, or even whether, we can tell the difference between cosplay and the real thing.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

On that overcast morning with the F-150, Hummel stood on his tiptoes and reached both arms overhead into the tight crevices under the pickup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Behind them, a slim figure reaches up on tiptoes, but the 1-month pad is still out of her reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

"The team approached this work almost on their tiptoes," he tells me.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

She stood on her tiptoes to see over the crowd.

From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene

John Wollman tiptoed carefully around the issue of the Texas subpoena at the heart of the suit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Goddard has tiptoed into using AI to draft opinions, with her oversight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

And when asked, twice, whether he thought rates were high enough to bring inflation fully under control, he twice tiptoed around the question.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

The Dow Jones Industrial Average tiptoed less than 0.1% lower to 38,892.80, while the Nasdaq composite inched 5 points higher to 16,253.96.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Silently, I slipped from beneath my bed of leaves and tiptoed over to the hole.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Any hope Infantino might have had of tiptoeing away from the scene of his World Cup private-investment wreckage having sustained only minor damage to his reputation has been obliterated.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

During my stay on the islands, I regularly found myself tiptoeing around sea lions lounging beside hotel entrances or ferry docks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

And so looking back, you can see how I was tiptoeing around and it took a little moment before they really let me just let what my instincts were telling me to do, fly.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Investors tiptoeing back into Chinese stocks may want to consider companies that would benefit both from the rise of AI and a potential effort by Beijing to boost consumption.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

They made it to the foyer and through the destroyed entrance, tiptoeing around shards from the shattered door.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles