tread
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So, Kemi Badenoch will tread the same stage ageing rockers Marillion took last month - and where sequinned soprano Katherine Jenkins will perform next week.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
It is unclear how long Burnham can tread water without calling an election and enacting the bold plans he has presented.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Everyone around the primary grievers need to tread lightly,” she notes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
I could locate no source for the middle mystery, but its theatrical setting is a favorite of such series; any that last long enough will eventually tread those boards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
This was the conversation Jule wanted to have, but she knew she had to tread carefully.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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Her creations include recycled car tires—symbols of the capital’s traffic-clogged modern life—with sides and treads imprinted with gilded Aztec symbols, including the flying feathered serpent-god Quetzalcoatl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Instead of tech stocks rising broadly, you might see chip-maker stocks start to heat up, or perhaps gold stocks may outperform while the broader commodities sector treads water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
The parade this Saturday is said to cost $45 million, not counting the expense of disrupting much of the city for four days and repairing the damage done by tank treads.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2025
Guardiola, with that freshly signed two-year contract, insists he "wants it" as he treads on this alien territory of failure.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2024
It moved on tank treads and had what looked like a shopping cart attached to its front.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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Katherine Mansfield could write wonderful lines such as: “The men walked like scissors; the women trod like cats.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
This week he has trod the boards at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, hitting two half-centuries and an unbeaten 111 as England completed a rare one-day international series win.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
Asian markets trod water Thursday as euphoria over the end of a record US government shutdown petered, with focus back on Federal Reserve interest rates and tech bubble worries.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
On a negative note for Barca, De Jong was dismissed in stoppage time for a second yellow card as he trod on Iago Aspas' foot.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
He went row by row till he’d trod a puzzle in the grass.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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She received the offer of a summer job at the 1,200-lawyer firm in December, putting her solidly on the path many others have trodden to a lucrative and stable career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The "stunning" route was nominated by Amanda Jane Baldwin, who said she has trodden the path "more times than I can count" since moving to Winscombe seven years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
“We’ll likely follow the same path we’ve trodden in the United States, and so it will begin with a commercial footprint.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The path to investment success is easy to find because it’s well trodden and simple.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
But he had never trodden on them and she had not died.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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So you’d be more or less treading water between your returns and inflation with your money stashed in cash equivalents.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
He spent two years operating the dozer in the landfill, where treading uneven ground can be physically punishing work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The invisible labor can spill into strained marriages, chronic stress and the feeling of constantly treading water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Its Director David Aikman said that "treading water is not enough" to prevent the national debt from rising.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Heat and smoke, flames so bright they nearly blinded him, and a lone figure treading into the fire, pulling smoldering books from the shelves.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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