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Recent Examples of toehold
Lakes as small as Last Chance and Goodenough, both little more than shallow ponds, could at best have offered early life a toehold before their phosphates would have been depleted.
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Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 24 Feb. 2025
Given the challenges coming from Beijing, justices said Washington was within its power to deny it one of its strongest toeholds out of concern that it could be used to surveil Americans, steal their secrets, and feed them a stream of propaganda useful to China’s big-picture goals.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
But there will be some examples of pro-Trump media getting a toehold outside of Fox News.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Moreover, 11 of these small countries were members of the European Union, so China could gain a toehold in the world’s largest trading bloc without having to compete directly with western Europe’s advanced economies.
—Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2022
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Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 24 Feb. 2025
Given the challenges coming from Beijing, justices said Washington was within its power to deny it one of its strongest toeholds out of concern that it could be used to surveil Americans, steal their secrets, and feed them a stream of propaganda useful to China’s big-picture goals.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
But there will be some examples of pro-Trump media getting a toehold outside of Fox News.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Moreover, 11 of these small countries were members of the European Union, so China could gain a toehold in the world’s largest trading bloc without having to compete directly with western Europe’s advanced economies.
—Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toehold
Noun
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Today, Suntory’s Japanese whisky products have a foothold in many key regions, but the global whisky consumer market has matured significantly over the last decade.—
Chris Perugini,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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In the 1930s, vodka gained its first meaningful foothold in the U.S. when a Russian immigrant named Rudolph Kunett brought the Smirnoff brand to Bethel, Conn.—
Time,
Time,
4 June 2025
Noun
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The economy appears to be on solid footing as the ramifications of trade policy uncertainty begin to be felt.—
Jeffrey Schulze,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Treasury yields spiked higher Friday on the back of hotter-than-expected U.S. jobs data, as investors breathed a sigh of relief that the U.S. economy remains on solid footing.—
Sean Conlon,Alex Harring,Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
6 June 2025
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“Toehold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toehold. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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