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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
As Seoul boomed in the 1970s and 1980s the neighbourhood enjoyed cheap rents and a constant foot traffic of potential customers by the time Song arrived in 1984.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
However, Werro will race against Hodgkinson in a highly anticipated final following a successful appeal, with footage showing France's Anais Bourgoin had hit Werro's right foot with her left hand.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hundreds of women are trying to get compensation, which has set off a fight between the current owners of Harrods and the late tycoon’s family estate over who should foot the bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Clare had not set foot in the forest across the street since he’d un-died.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
River otters are not to be confused with sea otters, which live in the ocean, bays and harbors and can grow to be up to five feet and 100 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
At age 10, he wasn’t more than 4 feet tall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
According to Zillow, the building is 2,386 square feet, with one and a half baths.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Venice compound, which was built in 2004 by Los Angeles-based architect Kevin Mulcahy and which Scott purchased in 2017 for $2.2 million, spans 4,600 square feet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Harsh, bellowing shouts, snorting, baying animals… wagon wheels rattling, whip cracks, and a bugler’s call and marching feet.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
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
And unless the court stipulates otherwise, the party who requests the testimony foots the bill.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2022
Today, the government foots the majority of the bill for high-cost drugs.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
“These shoes I got on my foots are the workin’ shoes.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
The 54-year-old, who lives in Virginia, said she had a higher salary and felt like she footed more of their expenses, including for their home and two kids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
One original capped with white chocolate and footed with dark.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
Craig Revel Horwood, acerbic as ever, called it "flat footed", and Clarke and his partner Alexis Warr crashed out with the lowest score this evening - at 27.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
Over that period, South Korea footed about 30% of the total annual costs, in addition to providing indirect financial support such as waived taxes or foregone rents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
He was hit at once with the smell of coffee and frying potatoes, and in spite of everything, especially the close encounters with footed snakes and sheydim, his stomach growled.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Its fiscal first quarter results put it on a sound footing toward meeting its goal of $100 billion in annual revenue in the next two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
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
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, speaking alongside Trump, said the project would cost $22.5 billion, with United Airlines -- for which the airport is a major hub -- footing part of the bill.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
If I lost my footing and fell, he’d have to depend on the strength of his body and the rocks to keep me from going into the sea.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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