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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

If needed, tread water and call for help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

"We've been encouraged to reduce all the time by fencing cattle away from riverbanks, so they don't tread the banks and defecate in the river," said Henry Collins, of the Wylye Valley Farmers.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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

He tried to make her voice say the words, but it was his own he heard, just below the tread of his heart.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

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

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

Trailing behind them was a banner, caught in the tank’s treads.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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

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

Amid this legal and institutional tug-of-war, the Spanish federation offered its support, while the government trod cautiously through the regulatory maze, waiting to see how events unfolded.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

Basta glanced at the trees, looked down the road, and trod out his cigarette.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

“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 long trodden a fine line between top trading partner China and defence guarantor the United States.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 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

And soon the path became clear again: It was narrow but hard- trodden, and the trees parted from it willingly.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

Juan Carlos Blain, the 41-year-old manager of several private groceries and fast food outlets in western Havana, said his company was treading water.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

The American collegiate system is a popular route for British players, with Cameron Norrie and Jacob Fearnley also treading that path.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

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

Heat and smoke, flames so bright they nearly blinded him, and a lone figure treading into the fire, pulling smoldering books from the shelves.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee