footpad

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Recent Examples of footpad The wide footpads give the rider leverage for acceleration, stopping and turning. William Roberson, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 Spiders, cockroaches, beetles, bats, tree frogs, and lizards all have varying-sized sticky footpads that use these same forces. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2025 The deck is 40 inches long and 10 inches wide at the footpads. William Roberson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 The cost of a Pint X with the larger footpads, folding handle and performance tire adds up to $1,480. Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2024 Simply center the tool directly over the weed, press it firmly into the ground using the footpad, and then lean the handle towards the footpad. Christina Shepherd McGuire, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2024 Remove your foot and lean the tool toward the side with the footpad and the weed should pop right out. Kaitlin Gates, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2024 Because of the unexpected lateral velocity, however, engineers believe one of the lander's six footpads either hit a rock or got caught in a crevice, causing the spacecraft to tip over. William Harwood, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024 Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander, coming down faster than expected and moving slightly to one side at the moment of touchdown Thursday, apparently caught a footpad on the lunar surface and tipped over onto its side, officials said Friday. William Harwood, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for footpad
Noun
  • Castillo, a Peruvian national, and his accomplices were considered international bandits and wanted on several continents, according to the Los Angeles Times coverage of their trial, which lasted more than five months.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The caps proved popular with dockworkers, shipwrights and bandits, and, over time, the baker boy hat became synonymous with the newsboy cap (which was actually worn by boys working at newsstands).
    Rosa Rahimi, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The sybaritic highwayman Macheath maneuvers between a cutthroat capitalist milieu (Mr. and Mrs. Peachum) and a corrupt police force (led by Tiger Brown) while seducing daughters from both worlds (Polly Peachum and Lucy Brown).
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Written by Fielding, Richard Naylor and Jon Brittain, the series followed the contemptuous life of the 18th-century highwayman, known in York, England, as a thief, poacher and killer but whose exploits have been widely romanticized in modern culture.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Residents complain of thieves roaming the streets after dusk.
    Sophie Neiman, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Last year, thieves used explosives to break into the MPV Gallery in Oisterwijk.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This wasn’t the first time burglars have made a run at Love Jewels.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The knock-knock burglars hit expensive homes which usually have elaborate video surveillance systems so the crooks wear masks and hoodies to cover their identities.
    Greg Fisher, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When there was nothing left to rob, the pirates often resorted to killing.
    Lauren Vuong, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Pretty much the entire town goes full Jack Sparrow, dressing up in pirate costumes and waving wooden swords to commemorate and exorcise the trauma of a time when attacks by the formidable Hayreddin Barbarossa, a.k.a.
    Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Lego creature sported a pincher on its head and brandished a whip-like tail.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Don't set your thermostat too low Penny-pinchers might be tempted to set their thermostat at bracing levels and survive the winter by bundling up in layers or piling on blankets.
    Eric Lagatta, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024

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“Footpad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footpad. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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