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Investors do need to tread cautiously when it comes to small-cap investing, though.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Starmer promised a politics that “would tread more lightly on voters’ lives” and would be guided by moderate policies aimed at fine-tuning the state rather than overhauling it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Waller emphasized he did not expect a worst-case scenario to come to pass, but said the Fed has to tread carefully.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026

A forensic intelligence officer at Cheshire Police explained that every person's footwear tread pattern is different, which helped lead them to the suspects.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

We put on his ruffled Sunday suit and I tell him that we are expecting a sweet angel and where angels tread, the hosts must be as beautiful as floating hibiscus.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

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

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

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

While the amateurs pushed 40 mph on the 1/8 scale model racetrack, that Sunday morning in March, the pros waited in the pits, supergluing new treads on their tires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

On the side of the road, where the earth had been turned by tank treads, an emaciated cow wailed.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Ratha Sor trod carefully when asked about government-backed infrastructure projects responsible for some of that deforestation.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Bush trod a delicate diplomatic line during his August 2008 trip, as human rights groups called for a tough stance on China's rule of Tibet, arrests of dissidents and Internet censorship.

From Barron's ● May 15, 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

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

In its light, Alice trod carefully down to the cellar floor.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

“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

Until then, however, humans are likely to continue their small steps into the cosmos, on a path long trodden by robotic explorers before them.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024

To the east, always the trains move to the east, beyond the rims of the hills; they go to the huge trodden borderlands of the front.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

“Meanwhile, middle and lower income households, who are under more financial strain from high prices and weak income growth, are treading water.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Which in many ways Monroe was, treading the line, invisible to the rest of us, between innocence and worldliness, between vulnerability and power.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

He was aware, in the night, of thunder and of lightning, although he did not wake; and then in the small hours of the morning he was woken by someone treading, awkwardly, on his feet.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman