tread
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“We are trying to at least tread water.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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
What I would say is the whole Spirit of Cricket question is an incredibly difficult path to tread.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
That metric is currently signaling that investors should tread carefully, Opsal said in a phone interview Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Only two days ago, she would have left it at that, respecting their unspoken agreement to tread lightly in each other’s pasts.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Beyond a couple of scuff marks and some debris jammed into the treads, our sojourn had left the shoes looking much as they had when I’d first taken them off the shelf.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Though a lighter film, 1999 winner “Shakespeare in Love” treads the same boards, imagining a young, struggling Will and the woman who spurs him to greatness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Apple, like many networks, treads very carefully around topics that could be divisive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
A government-backed pay rise of 4.2% for police officers in England and Wales "barely treads water", the association representing front-line officers says.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
The ceiling is smooth and black; slabs of it descend over him as he treads.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
This was to help protect the church, built in 1873, and to make sure no-one trod on any graves, but also because she was - and remains - a massive fan of the series.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Asian markets trod water Thursday as euphoria over the end of a record US government shutdown petered, with focus back on Federal Reserve interest rates and tech bubble worries.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
No one trod easily upon the emotions of another where the sea licked everywhere against an endless shoreline.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
But when he joined the Reds in 2017, he was all too aware of the legacy of some great Scots who had trodden the same path before him.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
“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
He followed a path trodden by other youngsters from elite liberal families, attending the elite Bronx High School of Science followed by Bowdoin College in Maine, a university seen as a bastion of progressive thought.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 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 thought about the first day he had gone there, the strangeness of it, the way he had trodden about warily, like a cat, smelling out new things.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
It’s all so Clippers, to have lined up this move that will keep them afloat, just treading water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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
“It’s kind of a treading water labor market, so it’s not in a bad place, but it’s not in a great place either,” he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
I went back to the postoffice, treading my shadow into pavement, go down the hill then they rise toward town like lanterns hung one above another on a wall.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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