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Recent Examples of toddle
As players cleared the court, Ares could be seen with his mom, toddling across the hardwood with a basketball in hand, chasing after loose balls and even giving dribbling a try before his dad scooped him up.
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Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 16 Oct. 2025
Tagovailoa was not quite 3 and toddling around Ewa Beach, Hawaii, at the time.
—Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2025
In the viral video, Carter gleefully toddled into the room with his prized possession: a doughnut.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
In search of my baby sister, having just learned to walk, toddling on fat legs from one piece of furniture to the next, giggles and drool, wearing only white cotton diapers.
—Literary Hub, 6 May 2025
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Women often totter along a delicate line between beauty and torture, femininity and the bondage of expectation.—
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But The Gilded Age doesn’t do pure villains with its main cast, and Oscar totters between failson and tragic figure, the closeted heir of the Van Rhijn family dragged to hell and back after being defrauded of his mother’s fortune.—
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Sometimes an unexpected event lurches family members into becoming caregivers.—
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The entire tech industry lurched into motion.—
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Government agencies and businesses that invest in this training, and that insist every critical number survives a deterministic check, will capture AI's benefits without stumbling into its blind spots.—
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Dodge, still suffering the consequences of axing the popular previous generations of Charger and Challenger muscle cars, saw sales stumble down 28% compared with the previous year.—
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Spurs appear riddled with dysfunction from top to bottom and are floundering in lower mid-table in the Premier League, with an unbalanced and underwhelming squad.—
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The case against Comey has floundered, with the statute of limitations for the original charges having lapsed.—
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The crime was not the only one that shook the state over the weekend.—
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Isabel initially thought the sounds shaking her surroundings were thunder.—
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Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries that falter under heat, thermal batteries use molten salts as electrolytes, which become ionically conductive only when heated.—
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Pass protection faltered, the run game stalled and Love couldn’t find a rhythm through the air as Green Bay welcomed Chicago back into the game and the Bears once again took advantage to end their archrival’s season in stunning fashion.—
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His ability to apply them has wavered.—
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The forecast models are wavering a bit on when the rain will arrive but the trend is more toward Friday night and Saturday.—
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“Toddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toddle. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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