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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toddle
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Then there's the small, sweet moments—video of my goddaughter tottering in her first pair of shoes; my cat caught mid-yawn; a selfie of me and my dad on a date to the symphony.Malia Griggs, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2024
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Iraqi state institutions such as these were already tottering, and these actions threaten to erode them further.Michael Knights, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2023
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Context: Cox, who previously nurtured a profile as a moderate conservative and critic of President-elect Trump, lurched to the political right last year.Erin Alberty, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
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The departing team rushed out and climbed into the vehicle, which lurched away, vanishing with haste.C.J. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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The Packers stumbled down the stretch, losing three of five, including two in a row.Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Thomas watches as a naked virgin rides a horse, which is meant to stumble upon reaching the grave of a vampire.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Now, the fates of those snails have taken a positive turn: In the last decade or so, scientists found live members of species long thought to be extinct on the islands, kicking off a flurry of rescue initiatives for these floundering mollusks.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
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From there, though, Atlanta lost four straight and fell behind Tampa Bay (8-6) in the division as Cousins floundered.Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
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So what is the Warriors' appetite to shake things up this season?Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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But the potential for shaking things up would be there every day.Mike Sando, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Her breaking point came during a task that repeatedly pulled the interlocked participants under frigid water: The soggy Sutter faltered when running from the beach with a 30-pound rucksack.Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
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Over the course of the war, ceasefire negotiations have faltered at the eleventh hour on several occasions.Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Toddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toddle. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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