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Recent Examples of footprints
Jessica has a shirt printed with Walker’s footprints and name, along with a necklace engraved with his initials and birthstone.
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Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
But most of those are smaller footprints under 10,000 square feet, while the bulk of closures fall in the 10,000–50,000 square foot range.
—Kristin Mueller, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The company has yet to disclose financial details of the projects, and so far has requested drilling on small footprints totaling 280 acres.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025
In other words, the moons interact with Jupiter's magnetosphere to create distinct auroral footprints.
—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Data concerns Most of South Korea’s 51 million residents use smartphones and have big digital footprints, which could allow Google to use the map data for other lucrative purposes, experts say.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
This puts First Solar and Nextracker at an advantage due to their domestic manufacturing footprints, the UBS analysts said.
—Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Compressing models is standard practice these days, thanks to growing concerns around the energy and hardware footprints of the largest models.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025
More importantly, the most recent of these sightings, just two years ago, was by a railroad passenger, so keep a lookout for a tall, hairy figure, or for massive footprints, which are also commonly reported, and listen for the mysterious creature’s spine-tingling howls.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
But most of those are smaller footprints under 10,000 square feet, while the bulk of closures fall in the 10,000–50,000 square foot range.
—Kristin Mueller, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The company has yet to disclose financial details of the projects, and so far has requested drilling on small footprints totaling 280 acres.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025
In other words, the moons interact with Jupiter's magnetosphere to create distinct auroral footprints.
—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Data concerns Most of South Korea’s 51 million residents use smartphones and have big digital footprints, which could allow Google to use the map data for other lucrative purposes, experts say.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
This puts First Solar and Nextracker at an advantage due to their domestic manufacturing footprints, the UBS analysts said.
—Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Compressing models is standard practice these days, thanks to growing concerns around the energy and hardware footprints of the largest models.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025
More importantly, the most recent of these sightings, just two years ago, was by a railroad passenger, so keep a lookout for a tall, hairy figure, or for massive footprints, which are also commonly reported, and listen for the mysterious creature’s spine-tingling howls.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for footprints
footsteps
Noun
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Subways send a low rumble through the pavement, traffic makes overpasses quiver, and footsteps create faint ripples in the floor.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Your own footsteps in the dust.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Footprints.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footprints. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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