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toddled

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past tense of toddle

as in lurched

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Markets have lurched up and down as oil prices shot higher because of the war with Iran.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
His car lurched forward with Miller’s arm still reaching through the window, briefly dragging the cop down the street.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

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Athletic Club stumbled through most of last season, in part due to star forward Nico Williams never reaching 100 per cent fitness.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Andropov died in 1984, and Gorbachev took more than a year to gain power while the Kremlin stumbled along under the caretaker regime of the grievously ill Konstantin Chernenko.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026

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Like a lot of us who tottered into consciousness in the second half of the 20th century, Les Claypool grew up with cartoons from the family television beaming into his retinas.

— Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026
Outside, a gull tottered to the window and tapped its beak against the glass.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

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None of this much mattered to student Aayden Vasquez, who is excited about starting at Pacoima Middle School and shook hands with Chait, Garcha and anyone else who offered a palm during their visit to his home.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Tarrant County District Attorney In mid-November 1996, Narez shook her daughter, Kasandra White, and threw the child into a wall, causing her head to strike a door, according to the 1999 Tarrant County grand jury indictment.

— S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

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For nearly four years, Villa have represented reliability, emphasised by what has come of direct rivals who have floundered under the weight of change.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Apple has also had commercial disappointments, like the Vision Pro headset, and floundered on its Siri assistant.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 25 July 2026

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