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Recent Examples of footprintsBones show us how a dinosaur died, but footprints capture a fleeting moment of life.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, an officer who claimed to have been the first to examine the loft following the crimes testified that the dust on the floor was seemingly untouched, with no footprints or trailing skirts.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2026 An officer allegedly saw fresh footprints in the snow leading to the back door and a glass pane that had been shattered.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2026 Reviewers are pushing buyers to measure cabinet clearance before purchase, which is why smaller footprints are winning attention.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
14 Sep. 2026 Today, the footprints of the Twin Towers have become reflecting pools, the names of the fallen carved into bronze around them.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Sep. 2026 The two vast reflecting pools sit within the footprints of the Twin Towers; their edges are lined in bronze with the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of the attacks.—
Thomas E. Franklin,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2026 Three of the four footprints are set to be airlifted out by helicopter this fall and taken to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.—
Eric Henderson,
CBS News,
10 Sep. 2026 Some Arab governments responded with bloody crack downs, tracked activists through their digital or cellular footprints, and curtailed news coverage of the unrest.—
David Friend,
Vanity Fair,
10 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for footprints
footsteps
Noun
Millions of years after a massive Tyrannosaurus rex trudged through a prehistoric mudflat, paleontologists can finally follow in its footsteps.
Anderson will walk in the footsteps of his predecessor John Galliano, who was Dior’s creative director from 1996 to 2011 and presented a cruise show in Shanghai in 2010, in tandem with a store opening and a retrospective exhibition.