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“Everyone around the primary grievers need to tread lightly,” she notes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

He recounts how he approached a new challenge in an area where billionaires often tread but seldom triumph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

A safe self-rescue includes being able to tread water for 30 seconds, children being able to float on their back for 60 seconds and swim 15m to exit the water unaided.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

Sometimes there are landmarks along the way to doom and destruction, seemingly innocent paths along which we merrily tread, smiling as we go, into the pits of Deepest Hell.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

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

"We will reach net zero in a way that treads lightly on people's lives, not telling them how to live or behave," said the prime minister's official spokesman.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025

A thin gray sludge trickled from her boot treads onto the cream-colored linoleum.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Football legend Pele once trod its turf, and international sporting competitions have been held there.

From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 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

It took three more underwater renditions of the egg’s song before Harry had it memorized; then he trod water for a while, thinking hard, while Myrtle sat and watched him.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

“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

The flooring, believed to have been once trodden on by the playwright and actor, was discovered at St George's Guildhall in King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 2023.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

"Fans distract and intimidate opposition players - even more so in derbies - and this is where the line can be trodden over," he says.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025

He could almost smell the trodden grass, the blossom from the orchard.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

After rallying to highs of $82,000 earlier this month, bitcoin traded around $77,400 Friday, with other coins also treading water amid the lack of regulatory clarity and the Federal Reserve’s risk-sapping rate hike Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Actors, writers, production staff and movie fans are still resistant to the overuse of AI and defining when and where it is acceptable, so studios are treading lightly, said AI film studio CEO Mooser.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 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

They could swim as soon as they could walk and would stay in the water, swimming and treading, for hours.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers