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That said, BSP will tread cautiously as oil prices regain traction, and food inflation is still vulnerable to supply-side shocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Accordingly, Judge Poland entered a default judgment into the record, which gave Midland Credit Management the right to tread on his bank account and garnish his wages.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

“In-N-Out will be mourning with the families and praying for them as they tread through a very painful season,” Snyder wrote Sunday in a statement on Facebook.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

That metric is currently signaling that investors should tread carefully, Opsal said in a phone interview Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

They might be as small as peanuts, in which case she could easily tread on one that an antelope hoof had missed.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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 product has recently been used in large window frames and also to make kitchen cabinets, furniture and the treads of internal staircases.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

While the amateurs pushed 40 mph on the 1/8 scale model racetrack, that Sunday morning in March, the pros waited in the pits, supergluing new treads on their tires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

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

They drove under the Arch and turned east, twenty bulky, quiet-running, barge-like trucks on caterpillar treads, going single file down the deep streets of Erhenrang through the shadows of morning.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

EU trade ministers meeting in Brussels Friday trod a fine line, stressing that the EU-China relationship was important, but more balance was needed.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

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

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

Midfielder McTominay trod the same path last summer by escaping the chaos of United in moving to Naples and the 28-year-old instantly became a cult hero, netting 12 goals to inspire their title success.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025

Oh, to be alive! was all he could think as he trod water, inhaling and coughing in spasms.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

“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

Seoul has long trodden a fine line between top trading partner China and defence guarantor the United States.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025

Self-funded for much of her teenage years, Kartal's route to professional tennis was not the most well trodden, while she also did not pick up a racquet for two years because of injury.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025

This pathway is now so well trodden as to have become a trope: the male feminist who deeply, appallingly wasn’t.

From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2025

He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree and crouched, looking down at the trodden ground at his feet.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

"There is a sense that the candidates are treading carefully to avoid offending the US and other veto powers."

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

The S&P 500 has been treading water for more than a month now, but beneath the surface of the U.S. equity market, big changes are taking shape.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026

“In this higher-rate environment, home price growth remains constrained, with housing largely treading water in nominal terms and falling in real terms,” said Nicholas Godec at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

"But to be polarising is to be talked about and to be cared about, and I think I'd always rather that than be constantly treading on eggshells and trying to dictate how people perceive you."

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Meggie saw her mother get up and come toward her, walking tentatively, as if she were treading on broken glass.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke