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What I would say is the whole Spirit of Cricket question is an incredibly difficult path to tread.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

If needed, tread water and call for help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

Knobby tread is made for the dirt, not the street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Investors eager to tap into the battery boom, however, should tread carefully.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Jonathan’s eyes flew open as he jammed his feet down and began to tread water.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

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 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

Guardiola, with that freshly signed two-year contract, insists he "wants it" as he treads on this alien territory of failure.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2024

Government investigators said the steel treads of the excavator struck rock and caused ignition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024

It rolled back on its treads, then surged forward.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

Now, to help round out its pipeline, Pfizer is looking to China, following the path trod by many of its peers in recent months.

From Barron's ● Dec. 9, 2025

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

At last I trod on a sharp stone that pierced the leather sole, and the sole of my foot as well.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

“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

As a teenage travelling reserve for Saracens, he spent a coach trip to Newcastle composing poetry., external More recently he has trodden the catwalk as a model.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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

Harry leapt into the air; he’d trodden on something big and squashy on the doormat — something alive!

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

Its Director David Aikman said that "treading water is not enough" to prevent the national debt from rising.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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

UC officials say they are treading carefully, knowing their debate on testing could later be turned against the university.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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

The dragonflies returned with their riders to the children, and Pantalaimon crept into Lyra’s breast as she and Will moved closer together, treading carefully along the slimy path.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman