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- noun A
tightrope .
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Examples
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The real challenge in public opinion research is walking the tightwire between question wordings that will slant responses one way or the other.
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I really don't need to get that Chuck Close a topography of makeup deposits and tightwire nip/tucks.
Thud and Blunder: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Highwire is the same as tightwire but at much greater height.
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Odom, though, walks the tightwire with an amazing adeptness.
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After divorcing her first husband, tightwire artist Billy Powell, in the mid-1960s, she was remarried to Robert "Bucky" Steele, an elephant trainer.
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In a conference call, Miller spoke of the tightwire challenge of balancing inventories and cancellations; he lauded Lennar's "focus and discipline in a changing market."
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I may not always successfully tread the tightwire.
no no! I can't be writing right now I have to---aaaaiiii! Holly 2005
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My lady gave up her job somewhere in the first trimester, leaving me to be the sole breadwinner, and now I'm walking a tightwire that pretty much cuts into my feet as I try to balance my share of the child rearing, wanting to be there with my little one, and needing to pay the bills.
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I had no doubt that, assuming I could find that balancing point, it would be a tightwire act of constant adjustments and accommodations, but certainly it had to be better than what I had been doing?
Balancing in High Heels Eileen Rendahl 2004
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My first real step back onto the tightwire act that used to be my life.
Balancing in High Heels Eileen Rendahl 2004
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