- past participle of tread.
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
Self-funded for much of her teenage years, Kartal's route to professional tennis was not the most well trodden, while she also did not pick up a racquet for two years because of injury.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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
“These are dangerous days, and not to be trodden lightly.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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