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

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Recent Examples of footstep The film also took home the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival — following in the footsteps of Neon’s last awards darling, Parasite. Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025 All runners help reduce sound by cushioning footsteps and absorbing sound waves. Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025 His idol James Clerk Maxwell achieved such a feat in the early 1860s, using a single set of equations to describe electricity, magnetism and radiation, and Einstein hoped to follow in Maxwell’s footsteps. Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2025 The book traced his family’s journey from Texas to Los Angeles in the late 1950s, following in the footsteps of millions of African Americans who escaped the Jim Crow South to the promise of the North and West. Moses moved in with his grandmother in Watts. Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for footstep

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“Footstep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footstep. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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