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Appeared in the October 20, 2025, print edition as 'Gov. Hochul Tiptoes Toward Mamdani'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

All of which means that if Squirrel Nutkin is to survive, Timmy Tiptoes must go, red squirrel advocates say.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2017

The other was a gluttonous fellow named Timmy Tiptoes — and he was a bushy-tailed gray squirrel.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2017

NOW Goody Tiptoes had set to work again by herself.

From A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories by Potter, Beatrix

A Man whilst he is advising putteth his Understanding upon Tiptoes, and is unwilling to bring it down again.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of