trip up
verb
tripped up; tripping up; trips up
: to cause (someone) to make a mistake
He tried to trip up the cashier as she counted his change.
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June’s tepid hiring comes after a relative surge in job gains the previous three months, countering concerns that the war in Iran would trip up an already wobbly labor market.
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
That is where people get tripped up.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
But Brown’s team identified a cluster of four clusters—the megacluster—that produces not just one, but four molecules that work in different ways to trip up the biotin pathway.
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Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2026
Ultimately, Sinner’s draw has fallen with no genuine banana skins — the kind of early-round matches that can trip up even the best players in the world.
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Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
That is where people get tripped up.
—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
But Brown’s team identified a cluster of four clusters—the megacluster—that produces not just one, but four molecules that work in different ways to trip up the biotin pathway.
—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2026
Ultimately, Sinner’s draw has fallen with no genuine banana skins — the kind of early-round matches that can trip up even the best players in the world.
—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
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“Trip up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trip%20up. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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