Synonyms of teeter
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Verb
The pile of books teetered and fell to the floor.
She teetered down the street in her high heels.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
2 July 2026
The film won an Oscar, helped earn Gore a Nobel Prize, and convinced young Americans that civilization was teetering on the brink.
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Bjorn Lomborg,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2026
Air Mail,
27 June 2026
While the special effects teeter on the PlayStation 2 side and the script might be thinner than a wafer, as soon as Adkins steps into the scene, everything feels infinitely better.
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Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Among the biggest beneficiaries have been puffins, whose population has grown from just 13 birds in 2000 to 1,335 in 2026 after teetering on the brink of local extinction.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
2 July 2026
The film won an Oscar, helped earn Gore a Nobel Prize, and convinced young Americans that civilization was teetering on the brink.
—
Bjorn Lomborg,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2026
Noun
Over the decades, Cricket and Olympia teeter between friendship and love, their orbits colliding at New York galleries and Paris ateliers before painfully coming apart again.
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Air Mail,
27 June 2026
While the special effects teeter on the PlayStation 2 side and the script might be thinner than a wafer, as soon as Adkins steps into the scene, everything feels infinitely better.
—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Teeter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teeter. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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