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treading

noun as in threshing

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Well, who’s treading water now?

The few times I’ve tried it I’ve felt somewhere between useless to misused, treading the empty road between households where no one is home and no one talks.

From Salon

That forces you to be diligent, treading up and down the rows of plots until you find the person you’re looking for.

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“It’s easy on our joints. It’s also hard to move through, so there’s tension. So just moving back and forth, treading water, deep water running, arm movement patterns — it’s all resistance training.”

“We were just treading water, and we were doing fine, but it was nothing like this. We called it off at the right time, and when people tell me, ‘You’ll be back in five years…’ they can go f— themselves.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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