2019, Nick Senior, "Hash Redactor", New Noise, Issue #47, page 29:
The band play a familiar yet fresh style of art punk that takes more than a few cues from post-punk, and their lyrics take a perverse yet playful view of humanity's rake-stepping self-destructive side.
After several weeks of rake-stepping you conclude that the current government might not have the wholehearted confidence of the markets, at a time where you are preparing gargantuan levels of gilt issuance to raise money for huge amounts of energy support.
And despite occasional attempts at reform, usually in response to some epic rake-stepping by the agency, federal disaster relief has gotten no simpler or more effective.
So long as Musk cares about Twitter, even his rake-stepping mismanagement won’t drive it into total irrelevance.
2024, Matthew Noble, "Look to the West one Last Time.", Masonic Messenger (Grand Lodge of Georgia), Spring 2024, page 26:
I started the way “I” believed to be the right way, but after almost three months of rake stepping, I finally started learning to do things that have helped me be both professionally and personally successful and grow that leadership and management skill that I had never used before.
VP of Player Personnel Eliot Wolf oozes with, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing …” and has deftly escaped any blame for the personnel rake-stepping of the past few seasons.
