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[foot-print] / ˈfʊtˌprɪnt /


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Much of this is a reaction to efforts by progressives that encourage people to shrink their carbon footprint and waste less of the earth’s resources.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Satellite images can show the surface footprint of a rock glacier, but they provide much less information about its depth, internal structure, and total amount of buried ice.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

“Most, I would say, nearly all open models run on Nvidia, and the reason for that is because Nvidia’s footprint around the world is the highest.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

"Practices will need to be incentivised back into NHS work in the places where the NHS footprint has thinned most."

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The soles of my shoes mark each rock with a wet footprint.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

Some of the vehicles abandoned by foreign forces went on display this week, including a Humvee covered in dusty footprints and wrapped in fairy lights.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The findings suggest that long dinosaur trackways can preserve behavioral details that shorter stretches of footprints may fail to reveal.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

When you get locked up, your digital presence is the total sum of your activity on social media, and its footprints continue stepping without you.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

NRG Energy has partnered with Sunrun to market bundled solar-and-storage subscriptions, while incumbent hardware makers such as Tesla continue expanding residential footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

If the janitors wondered how footprints could appear in a supposedly empty school building in the middle of the night, they kept their questions to themselves.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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