foot
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Water levels have been at least “half a foot above the prediction for months.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
"You're floating around in the air, and you give a little tap with your foot, and you can sail over to say hello to your buddy."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
During Labor Day weekend, the town’s foot traffic plummeted compared with the year before, according to Mayor Richard Holcomb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Marie Antoinette was out of her depth from the moment she set foot in France from Austria, entrusted with overseeing war and peace, money and poverty.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
I grab her ankle, pulling her foot back in my lap.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The ultimate goal is to raise, by 3 feet, parts of flood-prone Highway 37, which connects Marin and Sonoma counties to Napa and Solano counties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
But Italy captain Donnarumma struggles with the ball at his feet and often puts his team-mates in trouble with passes out from the back.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Rose ski resort, with the area’s highest base elevation at 8,260 feet, plans to open early, according to SFGate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Even without fresh powder, Sun Valley’s Bald Mountain—known locally as Baldy—offers 3,400 feet of vertical and long, impeccably groomed runs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Her question lands at my feet with a thud.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
Today, the government foots the majority of the bill for high-cost drugs.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
He turned on the foots and she walked out on the apron and looked over the thousand dark empty waiting raked seats.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
The confirmation came after the ProPublica investigative website reported that Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars for the parties.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and interviews with three people familiar with the event.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
He is right footed, although he prefers to play on the left wing, but can also play on the right or through the middle.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Working families footed the bill in two forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
La Llorona removed the lids from the footed pie dishes, picked two of them up, and pointed to the others for me.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
As Fielder gains steady footing on the margin dividing observation and manipulation, aiming the camera at either side, he uncovers something deeply, cosmically sad: Holmes can’t seem to tell the difference between the two.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Stevenson added that reviews were "heavily influenced by clinical notes which is one account of what happened", but believes parents' "voices should be placed on an equal footing".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
If your brother is also on a solid financial footing, you may feel more generous about giving up part of your inheritance.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Friday that the city, which is far from the front line of fighting between soldiers, was in a "very dramatic situation" and should now be on a war footing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
As my mom found her footing, my dad seemed to struggle: He was often stressed and distracted, as my missing brother, Heritage, was always on his mind.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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