tread
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So, Kemi Badenoch will tread the same stage ageing rockers Marillion took last month - and where sequinned soprano Katherine Jenkins will perform next week.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
They’re lacing up their Clouds to tread one of the finest lines in business: becoming more popular without becoming any less premium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
“Everyone around the primary grievers need to tread lightly,” she notes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Earlier this year, one Iranian restaurant in Kuwait City dropped the words "Iranian cuisine" from its title -- a visible manifestation of the precarious line Iranians must now tread.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
It got kind of exhausting to tread water or balance on tiptoes while the rest of them planted their feet on the bottom.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Because their iconic treads do look like bubbles, and who wouldn’t want to walk on that?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Her creations include recycled car tires—symbols of the capital’s traffic-clogged modern life—with sides and treads imprinted with gilded Aztec symbols, including the flying feathered serpent-god Quetzalcoatl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
As Guardiola treads water at Manchester City we are waiting to find out where the sport goes next.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
It rolled back on its treads, then surged forward.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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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
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
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
You may not find young Hazel’s logic persuasive, but I have trod through this vale of tears longer than you, and from where I’m sitting, she’s not the lunatic.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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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
Seoul has for decades trodden a fine line between China, its top trading partner, and the United States, its chief defence guarantor.
From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026
Self-funded for much of her teenage years, Kartal's route to professional tennis was not the most well trodden, while she also did not pick up a racquet for two years because of injury.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
Some of those will cover ground trodden in his successful Mirror Group case in 2023 and, just like in that case, he will give evidence in person.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025
There was a path beneath my feet, clearly trodden and winding farther into The Woods.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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He spent two years operating the dozer in the landfill, where treading uneven ground can be physically punishing work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The invisible labor can spill into strained marriages, chronic stress and the feeling of constantly treading water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
"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
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
Jule cried, treading water and lifting Immie up as best she could.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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