Thesaurus results for FOOTSTEPS

footsteps

noun

plural of footstep

as in footprints

the mark or impression made by a foot saw muddy footsteps on the just-cleaned stairs

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Recent Examples of footsteps Jasmine Gill became a registered nurse to follow in her mom's footsteps and had an 8-month-old. — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Opened in 1893, the hotel has Romanesque Revival architecture, and players have claimed to hear spooky noises and footsteps. — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026 Mary Ann, who declined to give her last name for her safety, eventually became a Baptist minister, following in her father’s footsteps. — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 Presley Gerber followed in his mother’s footsteps and began his own modeling career at the age of 15, signing with IMG Models and featuring in a campaign for Calvin Klein, the Moschino runway and a Pepsi ad alongside his mother. — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026 This budding storm will not follow in the exact footsteps or reach the same strength as last month’s nor’easter. — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026 In doing so, the German department store follows in the footsteps of the likes of Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London and Saks Fifth Avenue, which opened its now-defunct The Wellery back in 2017. — Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 Four years later, Boyd and Perrone are looking to follow in his footsteps. — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 The singer follows in the footsteps of previous Art+Film Gala performers like Doja Cat (who headlined last year), Charli XCX (with surprise guest Troye Sivan), Celeste, Anderson. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for footsteps

Noun

Solid-state conversion would mean smaller footprints, fewer conversion stages and less copper.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
The footprints suggest humans may have inhabited North America earlier than the timeline supported by currently available genetic evidence.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of footprints

Noun

The other two, Descript and Resemble AI, had taken steps to make nonconsensual cloning harder.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Yet over the past year, Netanyahu has taken steps that angered Trump and others in his administration, including strikes in Lebanon and Gaza that undercut his regional peace efforts.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026