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Discover LudwigThe phrase "foothold for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a strong or stable base or support for something. Example: "The new policy provided a foothold for the company to expand into international markets."
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They established a foothold for modernist art.
Greece is one foothold for China's broad, strategic push into Europe.
Confucianism prospered among the low-echelon aristocrats, who used it as a foothold for bureaucratic advancement.
Lax regulations in Russia have already provided a foothold for natural gas for cars.
This creates tiny hollows which provide a foothold for larval corals.
"It risks providing a foothold for divisive, hateful abuse masquerading as free speech".
But he is doing this, he said, to at least get a foothold for later on.
My father had left his family in the South to go make a foothold for himself.
The porters were also playing a critical role in gaining an economic foothold for their descendants.
In this open, blasted, impoverished land, there is little foothold for either wildlife or new thinking.
How might gossip offer "a foothold for newcomers" in a group?
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