beaten track
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It is also a lever for encouraging tourism into an area far off the beaten track.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
Much of Dudamel’s program went intriguingly off the beaten track, turning to “The Cowboys” and “Amistad.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023
It is off the beaten track for most Palestinians, and far from Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, the body created in the 1990s that exercises limited self-rule over parts of the West Bank.
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023
"My dad loved Spain and he loved going off the beaten track and this is where Dali actually lived for most of the later part of his life."
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2022
In their style most Byzantine compilers of contemporary history followed the beaten track of older historians, e.g.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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