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Recent Examples of toehold
The Allied forces were able to gain a toehold in France that ultimately enabled them to liberate that country and march toward Germany.
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Medianews Group, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2025
High atop a particularly craggy one, the rainfall gets a toehold beneath soil clinging to a very steep and slightly concave slope of rock.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
What this means for the United States is that countries covertly or openly opposed to the maintenance and expansion of U.S. influence—whether globally or within its own hemisphere—are gaining more than a toehold.
—Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2017
There are at least two other compressed-air energy startups looking to get a toehold in the market for long-duration energy storage.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Sep. 2013
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Medianews Group, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2025
High atop a particularly craggy one, the rainfall gets a toehold beneath soil clinging to a very steep and slightly concave slope of rock.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
What this means for the United States is that countries covertly or openly opposed to the maintenance and expansion of U.S. influence—whether globally or within its own hemisphere—are gaining more than a toehold.
—Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2017
There are at least two other compressed-air energy startups looking to get a toehold in the market for long-duration energy storage.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Sep. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toehold
Noun
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In 2019, Microsoft viewed the partnership and investment in OpenAI partly as a way to gain a foothold in AI and to help promote Azure’s AI capabilities.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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Finding new ways to communicate In previous years, many brands used sustainability as a foothold for activism, and their communications became proudly political in the process.—
Bella Webb,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Gap appears to be on firmer footing.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
4 Nov. 2025
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For players like Bryson DeChambeau, the change is a long-overdue step toward equal footing on golf’s biggest stages.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Toehold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toehold. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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