How to Use tipster in a Sentence
tipster
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The tipster said the dog was in the Lauderdale Lakes area.
—Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2021
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The mole in the woman’s ear is what caught her eye, the tipster said.
—Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2022
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The tipster knew that Chance had been abandoned, but when the group searched, Chance was gone.
—Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2021
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Our tipster may just have gotten a file that slipped through the cracks.
—Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 29 Apr. 2022
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Be warned, though: Less than 0.5 percent of SEC tipsters get all the way to a payout.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 21 May 2023
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The tipster said the photo came from a relative of Hardin.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
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The anonymous tipster said the driver was named Bob and a frequent customer at the bar.
—Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
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This matched the description of the watch provided by the tipster.
—Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 12 May 2022
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The photo, the affidavit says, was given to the FBI through tipsters.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
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The tipster was the suspect himself, Frank Robert James, who then ambled off.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
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Three days later, a tipster pointed the FBI to her Snapchat account.
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2021
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If a complaint leads to a citation, the tipster could receive up to $1,000.
—Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
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The tipster may have been James himself, according to sources.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2022
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An anonymous tipster helped deputies solve the case by reporting seeing the crate in a home before it was found by the road.
—Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
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The tipster said Ruffo was sitting a few rows up behind home plate and wearing a blue shirt.
—Fox News, 7 Oct. 2021
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Police said an anonymous tipster led them to the suspects.
—Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2021
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Within a week of the shooting, a tipster identified Raglin as Bany's killer.
—Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2021
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Ball had moved the barrel by the time deputies arrived on Sept. 24, but his sister confirmed the tipster's story.
—Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021
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According to tipsters from @negativeonehero (via Notebookcheck), the Watch 7 and Watch Ultra will share some specs.
—Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 20 June 2024
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Based on the IP address included in the tipster's email, the site's forums, at least, seemed to be based in Western Europe.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
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Few tipsters or players pay close attention to the tiebreaker, which in most pools is the total score in the final game.
—Victor Mather, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
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Knowlton was identified in the photos by a tipster who claims to have known Knowlton for many years.
—Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
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Anonymous tips can be made at silentwitness.org, and may earn the tipster a cash reward if an arrest or indictment is made.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2023
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The tipster was not a person of interest in the case, authorities said.
—Sara Smart, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
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The tipster called in at 11:35 p.m. Police have not disclosed an exact timeline of the gunman’s movements.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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In addition to the price, the tipster also reveals that Google is planning to start the mass production of Pixel fold in the third quarter of 2022.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
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There is a $1,000 cash reward available to tipsters whose information leads to an arrest in the case.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
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But a tipster raised questions about Greenawalt’s service, which led to this newspaper’s review of his records.
—Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
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The tipster did not see the gun himself, and there was no sign at the time that Jones had made any specific threat connected with it, officials said.
—Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2022
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The three had been involved in a domestic disturbance a few blocks away, and a tipster named Johnny Ray Kelly claimed to have seen the men in the area that Friday night.
—Breeanna Hare, CNN, 10 Apr. 2021
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