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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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This time around, for 45 minutes, by adopting the kind of pragmatic, solid mentality that was more regularly the trademark of his predecessor, Postecoglou at least gave his side a foothold in the game.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has backed separatist forces in the breakaway Transnistria region, as a foothold to keep up pressure on the central government in Chișinău.—
John E. Herbst,
Time,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But if nothing else, this new environment should give Okoro breathing room to find his footing on the other end.—
Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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While the government shutdown has postponed official reports on the health of the jobs market, economist Mark Zandi believes nongovernment data shows that the labor market continues to be on weak footing.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Toehold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toehold. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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