on a treadmill
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The middle class is on a treadmill, and every year the belt speeds up.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
The pattern holds whether scientists are testing how fast lizards run on a treadmill, measuring how sharks swim in the ocean, or tracking how quickly bacterial cells divide.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
A Brazilian man with a penchant for sporting records breaks a new one after tackling the most boring physical challenge he could dream up: running on a treadmill for 24 hours.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
“To walk on a treadmill or run on a treadmill for hours and hours like some people do, that’s not for me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Beneath the sag of the buggy the hooves neatly rapid like the motions of a lady doing embroidery, diminishing without progress like a figure on a treadmill being drawn rapidly offstage.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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