tread
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“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
Knobby tread is made for the dirt, not the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
This includes fully working lights and electrics, tyres in good condition with sufficient tread and the overall condition of the vehicle.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
As I continued to tread water with only one arm, I gave thanks for Dad’s swim training.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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"A SnoCat team was also launched," the sheriff said, referring to the vehicles that use treads to move in the snow, and are more commonly found grooming snow at ski resorts.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Apple, like many networks, treads very carefully around topics that could be divisive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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
I didn’t ever set out to be like the writer that treads in grief, but here I am.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
So he mounted the stairs, the worn bare treads, the cracked and scaling wall on one side, the balustrade with its intermittent missing spindles on the other.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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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
In the Himalayan republic of some 30 million people, overshadowed by giant neighbours India and China, Oli previously trod a fine balance between the rivals.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 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
Tourists have long come here, whether to day-trip through hiking trails where prophets once trod or visit the village’s different churches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
In its light, Alice trod carefully down to the cellar floor.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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“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 for decades trodden a fine line between China, its top trading partner, and the United States, its chief defence guarantor.
From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026
Some of those will cover ground trodden in his successful Mirror Group case in 2023 and, just like in that case, he will give evidence in person.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 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
Speak I must: I had been trodden on severely, and must turn: but how?
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Its Director David Aikman said that "treading water is not enough" to prevent the national debt from rising.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
"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
Paddleboarders and lifeguards could be seen around the man but did not approach him while he was treading water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 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
“I do not understand,” said the robot, who was treading water beside him.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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