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- noun Plural form of
tightrope .
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Examples
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The thing about tightropes is you know there’s a chance you’re going to fall and break something.
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The thing about tightropes is you know there’s a chance you’re going to fall and break something.
June « 2008 « 2008
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DNA into multiple 'tightropes' to see the process more clearly.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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This helps to explain the cautious response out of the Obama administration, which has been trying to walk one of the slimmest tightropes in foreign affairs.
Bookends of Egyptian history Jonathan Capehart 2011
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President Obama has had to walk several tightropes during this period, but so far seems to have kept public opinion on his side during the series of crises.
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- February, 2011 Chris Weigant 2011
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Best act: the Russian men, some of whom hoist three flexible bars no more than a foot wide onto their shoulders, while others, the "flyers," treat the long bars as tightropes or trampolines.
'Totem' Should Top the Polls Paul Levy 2011
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More on edge than anyone in the group and always ready to shoot first and ask questions later, he tightropes the fine line between sanity and craziness without ever jumping off the deep end.
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President Obama has had to walk several tightropes during this period, but so far seems to have kept public opinion on his side during the series of crises.
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- February, 2011 Chris Weigant 2011
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He fences (occasionally on tightropes over roaring flames), jousts, leaps out high windows, falls into deadly pits, and crawls through secret tunnels.
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You cross a series of precarious bridges -- slender planks, unsteady tightropes, platforms punctuated with gaping holes that reveal the ground far below -- to ascend to the top level of a course.
Ropes courses and zip lies turn exercise into an adventure 2010
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