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Recent Examples of toehold
High atop a particularly craggy one, the rainfall gets a toehold beneath soil clinging to a very steep and slightly concave slope of rock.
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Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
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.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 24 Feb. 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
But tech experts remain skeptical of whether Microsoft can seriously expand its toehold in the smartphone market.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2013
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Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
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.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 24 Feb. 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
But tech experts remain skeptical of whether Microsoft can seriously expand its toehold in the smartphone market.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toehold
Noun
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That is leading to less frequent competition, which is not helpful for a sport that has long struggled to find a foothold among the behemoths of the NFL and the NBA.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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For Hansae, Haiti is not only an additional source of production capacity, but a strategic foothold in Central America, where demand for reliable and cost-competitive manufacturing continues to grow.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Typical mean-reversion action in a market drawing itself onto neutral footing before the Fed decision.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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The pair have raced for development teams who are finding their footing and established teams that are fighting for a title.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Toehold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toehold. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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