foot
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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