toddle

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Recent Examples of toddle Grant Park will always toddle on the tightrope of making the festival free and open to all while satisfying the ticket buyers who make that possible. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2024 On a recent morning, a 16-month-old boy toddled up a small embankment to touch wind chimes hanging from trees. Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2024 In a video, the Chrissy & Dave Dine Out star's son toddled across a lawn. Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024 In one clip, the little boy confidently toddled across the family's lawn. Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for toddle 
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Verb
  • European auto sales charts are filled with red ink as economies totter but a rare positive story surrounds Toyota’s premium subsidy Lexus, which will be helped by its newest electric vehicle, the RZ 300e.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • America was full of hope, tottering hastily toward a technological age filled with grand expectations for the future.
    Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Boeing has been lurching from crisis to crisis since January when the door panel blew off a near-new 737 MAX plane in midair, leading to the departure of Kelly's predecessor, Dave Calhoun.
    Dan Catchpole and Allison Lampert, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Rather than succumbing to intoxication over the killing of Nasrallah and lurching into a full-scale, devastating regional war against Iran, Israel should take advantage of its current battlefield edge and Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s weakened state.
    Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Surveyors reportedly stumbled upon the endangered bees during an environmental review of the area, forcing regulators to suspend the project.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Joining it in the middle-range are companies like Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle, which have both seen sales soar while Urban Outfitters has floundered.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
  • But not long after, as the entire industry floundered during the pandemic, the label dropped Roan from their roster.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Over the next few years, a plague of disorder will descend upon America, and maybe the world, shaking everything loose.
    David Brooks, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Maybe that’s why World Cups end with the two teams shaking hands, one offering congratulations and the other condolences, and elections don’t.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Were Russia to falter in the war and start seeking an exit, countries outside Europe could be vital to the ensuing diplomacy.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Like many in the auto industry, Stellantis has been contending with a perfect storm of challenges on the road to full electrification, including faltering global demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and competition from China.
    Matt Clinch,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Toddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toddle. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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