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
Investors do need to tread cautiously when it comes to small-cap investing, though.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Knobby tread is made for the dirt, not the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
At first they saw nothing, though Briony thought she could make out the tread of shoes along the drive.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Apple, like many networks, treads very carefully around topics that could be divisive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
The product has recently been used in large window frames and also to make kitchen cabinets, furniture and the treads of internal staircases.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
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
There was the clatter of boots on the stair treads, then boots on the marble steps outside, and then the crash of the front door slamming.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Ratha Sor trod carefully when asked about government-backed infrastructure projects responsible for some of that deforestation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
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
Sheinbaum has trod carefully in her gradual effort to rebuild bilateral relations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 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
When she took a few steps in it she trod on the hem.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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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
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
As hip-hop rose from the streets to the mainstream in the 90s, the rappers and hustlers that broke through had few role models who had trodden that path before them.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024
She had to be careful not to be trodden on.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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"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 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
She played vigorously, pulling out the stops with a flourish and treading away like mad on the bellows pedal while Harry turned the pages.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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