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Recent Examples of footprints
From screen time limits to digital footprints, these five terms give you the language to set boundaries, foster trust and keep your family safer online.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Dahl, meanwhile, recommends brands undertake the Chemical Footprint Project, which calculates the total mass of chemicals of high concern used by an organization and evaluates chemical management systems against industry best practice to measure and reduce overall footprints.
—Sophie Benson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
Glossy floors—especially in darker colors—reflect footprints, pet hair, dust, and dirt.
—Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
In this age of money ruling all things program building — not historical blue blood status or high school geographic recruiting footprints — anyone can change the course of history with the right coach and a boatload of cash (hello, Indiana).
—Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2025
Other team members continued conducting surface and CT imaging of the skeleton and studied fossilized footprints.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Our footprints and our contribution in this country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it.
—Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
The footprints, hundreds of them, were made by colossal beasts that roamed the earth 166 million years ago.
—Ian King, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
In addition, this design makes for smaller land footprints and eliminates the need for the extremely expensive civil engineering works required for earlier reactor designs.
—New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Dahl, meanwhile, recommends brands undertake the Chemical Footprint Project, which calculates the total mass of chemicals of high concern used by an organization and evaluates chemical management systems against industry best practice to measure and reduce overall footprints.
—Sophie Benson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
Glossy floors—especially in darker colors—reflect footprints, pet hair, dust, and dirt.
—Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
In this age of money ruling all things program building — not historical blue blood status or high school geographic recruiting footprints — anyone can change the course of history with the right coach and a boatload of cash (hello, Indiana).
—Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2025
Other team members continued conducting surface and CT imaging of the skeleton and studied fossilized footprints.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Our footprints and our contribution in this country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it.
—Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
The footprints, hundreds of them, were made by colossal beasts that roamed the earth 166 million years ago.
—Ian King, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
In addition, this design makes for smaller land footprints and eliminates the need for the extremely expensive civil engineering works required for earlier reactor designs.
—New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for footprints
footsteps
Noun
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If Breguet, Selmoni, and Rainero led the charge in brand storytelling, a new generation of historians is following in their footsteps with fresh visibility and palpable passion.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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Throughout Christy's childhood, her dad worked as a coal miner, and her brother later followed in his footsteps.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Footprints.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footprints. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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