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foot

[foot] / fʊt /
NOUN
extremity of an animate being
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NOUN
base of an object
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Low-impact exercise refers to exercises where you keep at least one foot on the ground, or support the body in some other way.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Long queues of people could be seen evacuating towns on foot, by motorbike and car, some piled into the back of pickup trucks.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

Said injured her foot later that year while covering a weather-related story in the area.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

“The industry shot themselves in the foot this year,” said Pooran Sharma, an agriculture analyst for financial services firm Stephens.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

They were too cowardly to set foot inside the forest, but their horrible song echoed through his head all year long.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Max Muncy got to Henderson in the fourth by hitting a tying home run 370 feet to right field.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Four minutes later, Seeker 8 reports a change in draft of nearly 30 feet, suggesting it unloaded its cargo.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

In the broadcast booth, he sometimes alternates between standing and sitting, or puts his feet up on a table, anything to avoid sitting for hours on end.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Maresca might visually be Pep's doppelganger, but he looks to be filling some enormous shoes with toddler feet at the moment.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

My legs and feet were still painfully swollen from the long count the day before, my shoes were held together with bits of string.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Levon White, a third-grader in Newman Lake, Wash., said he orders sushi once a month when he visits his best friend’s grandmother, who happily foots the bill.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

It's not always obvious who foots the bill for campaign rallies.

From Salon Oct. 11, 2024

Lyle Foster has a pop from the edge of the box and a deflection almost wrong foots Ivo Grbic in the Sheffield United net but he manages to save.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2024

Marler also foots the bill for clients to testify in person.

From Seattle Times Feb. 24, 2023

“These shoes I got on my foots are the workin’ shoes.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Working families footed the bill in two forms.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Genuinely two footed, over the past two Premier League campaigns he has had 103 shots with his left foot and 95 with his right, and played equal minutes across both wings.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

One original capped with white chocolate and footed with dark.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2026

Savinho, who is left footed, made two-thirds of his league appearances for City on the right, while he predominantly played for Girona on the left.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2025

I footed a line in the dirt, dividing our stall in half.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

They take the olive groves and the goats and the summer houses, and they take the makeshift shelters and the fragile new footing of people who had already lost everything once.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

Novo has struggled to regain its footing against Lilly, an aggressive and strategic competitor in the GLP-1 market.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

It’s now flooded with standardized public-market data, so much so that undergraduates can readily peer inside and participate on nearly equal footing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

He said the change would "lower the cost of travel at a critical time for teenagers, whether they're pursuing further education, vocational pathways or getting their footing in the jobs market".

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

A sudden chill to his left, and he nearly lost his footing.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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