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Recent Examples of footprintsThe new plan delineates rough land-use areas, not specific buildings or footprints.—
Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Oct. 2026 The moon is a historical landmark — a celestial body continually peppered with robotic landers shot from our home planet, as well as human footprints planted there by a dozen visiting moonwalkers from 1969 to 1972.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2026 But a Yum Brands-esque approach where — like KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell — the chains operate separately but combine their real-estate footprints and back-office operations makes sense on paper.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
6 Oct. 2026 For brands with smaller footprints, late or missing payments can be far more crippling.—
Rachel Felder,
Robb Report,
4 Oct. 2026 Dry manufacturing eliminates solvents and ovens, shrinking factory footprints and power bills.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2026 Ancient footprints and Bronze Age art Experts didn’t believe marks uncovered by a biologist in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park in 2009 were ancient human footprints.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2026 Plant-eating dinos that looked like huge, armored lizards left those footprints while tramping near the coastline of a vast Western Interior Seaway that extended into Colorado.—
Kristen Kidd,
Denver Post,
22 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for footprints
footsteps
Noun
The new Baywatch finds wild-child legacy character Hobie Buchannon (Stephen Amell) serving as a Baywatch Captain, following in his legendary father Mitch’s footsteps.
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Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2026
Robinson is now a sophomore at that same school, hoping to follow in his footsteps.