trodden
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“We’ll likely follow the same path we’ve trodden in the United States, and so it will begin with a commercial footprint.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
He followed a path trodden by other youngsters from elite liberal families, attending the elite Bronx High School of Science followed by Bowdoin College in Maine, a university seen as a bastion of progressive thought.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2025
Some of those will cover ground trodden in his successful Mirror Group case in 2023 and, just like in that case, he will give evidence in person.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025
This pathway is now so well trodden as to have become a trope: the male feminist who deeply, appallingly wasn’t.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2025
The king came down from the rise of trodden snow, and the two bears faced each other several yards apart.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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