STEPPED ON IT Synonyms: 108 Similar and Opposite Words

stepped on it

phrase

past tense of step on it

as in hurried

to proceed or move quickly They were going to have to step on it if they wanted to make it before the bank closed.

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Recent Examples of stepped on it Jackson broke his foot last training camp when a teammate stepped on it during practice, and that injury plagued him all of 2025, and required an offseason procedure that kept him sidelined all OTAs and minicamp. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 27 July 2026 Tillman, whose right foot was bloodied before the kick because a Bosnian player stepped on it, still arced a shot over five standing Bosnians, into an unsaveable spot that keeper Nikola Vasilj almost dared Tillman to target. — Sean Gregory, Time, 2 July 2026

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beat it

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Then, a general frontier model with no special training matched or beat it on finance tasks.

— Harshil Shah, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The name change likely stemmed (in part, at least) from the fact that Amazon Prime Video series Harlan Coben’s Lazarus beat it to market.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026

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