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footslog

verb

Definition of footslog

as in to trudge

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Cross over North Figueroa Street, and trudge up the hill before you, which has an average grade of about 15%.

— Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The ground level would sink, the water would seep up, and the horses’ hooves would trudge through mud.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of trudge

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The 307-mile Great Redwood Trail planned along a defunct Northern California rail line is colliding with the Wailaki tribe, as members decry hikers trampling ancestral villages and graves.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Philbrick, a seasoned and popular chronicler of the American past, is equally concerned with those who got trampled by the rush as with those who rode it to astonishing heights of wealth and influence.

— Richard Kreitner, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of trample

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Proteins and blood cells Proteins and DNA can gather on plastic surfaces, and lysozyme, a common test protein, also began clumping into aggregates there.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
Ordinary matter alone would struggle to clump together tightly enough to form stars.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of clump

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There are the requisite yard signs, campaign volunteers and meet-and-greet events in converted barns like the one where Jackson stumped on a crisp Wednesday morning in Chatsworth this week.

— Patricia Murphy, AJC.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Speculating on how a magic trick was done that stumped me in a bar 17 years ago.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of stump

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His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of stomp

Verb

Moments later, a male lion strolled out of the thin trees behind me, settling by the pond for a drink.

— Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
Over the next two hours, friends stroll by, on bike and on foot, stopping to catch up for a while before continuing on.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of stroll

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Plant-eating dinos that looked like huge, armored lizards left those footprints while tramping near the coastline of a vast Western Interior Seaway that extended into Colorado.

— Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026
Days or weeks passed, but then the dog barked, the mail carrier tramped onto the porch, the mailbox clattered.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of tramp

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Both teams now limp into Saturday's game in Austin with bruised bodies and egos, and carrying a whiff of desperation for a win to keep the season from unraveling.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Seek out care sooner when pain causes limping, swelling persists, function declines, or an injury follows a fall.

— Michael Swartzon, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

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