foot
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Yes, she has been a kind and supportive aunt, attending your graduation and helping you get your foot on the property ladder.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
She died before setting foot in it again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“It made me put my foot on the brakes and think, ‘What are you doing with your life here?’”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
"There is so much that should be addressed for people to be treated evenly, and at the moment, if you live rurally you're on the back foot," said Rhianon.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The line starts moving, so I put one foot in front of the other and walk, my black shoes following Avery’s red ones down the hallway and past the award plaques.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Greenland sharks weigh in at one ton and reaching up to 23 feet in length.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
"We've been told that the burns on her hands and feet are improving, although even after she recovers, she may not return 100 percent to how she was before she suffered the burns."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Tides in Southern California are expected to be 1 foot to 1.5 feet above what would ordinarily be expected without the abnormally warm ocean temperatures wrought by El Niño.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Pike, 50, continues to receive critical medical care and is being restrained at her hands and feet in her hospital bed, her lawyers said at the news conference after a court hearing on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
I kick off my sneakers, pull off my socks, and let my bare feet hang, swinging slowly next to hers.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
Which media entity winds up producing Mariners games — and who foots the bill for operational costs — remains an open question for Stanton and the Mariners’ ownership group.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
“These shoes I got on my foots are the workin’ shoes.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
The confirmation came after the ProPublica investigative website reported that Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars for the parties.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Barcola is right footed but prefers to play on the left wing and his likely arrival creates further doubt around Cody Gakpo's future at Anfield.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Working families footed the bill in two forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
One original capped with white chocolate and footed with dark.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
La Llorona removed the lids from the footed pie dishes, picked two of them up, and pointed to the others for me.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Klitschko has said that Kyiv -- largely spared from the devastation wrought near the frontlines in nearly five years of conflict -- should now be on a war footing due to the upsurge in attacks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The central role of the promoter — and the lack of genuine athletic competition in matches — puts wrestlers and management on remarkably unequal footing.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
It has previously highlighted that it is facing a £10m financial deficit in the next financial year and said the cuts are needed to put it back on a "sound financial footing".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The European Commission—the EU’s executive arm—in July issued binding instructions for Google to ensure that rival AI services could access features on Android devices to compete on an equal footing with Gemini.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Mama was strong enough to hold me by the corner of my shirt at the shoulder and lift me so that I could not get a firm footing on the ground.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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