trodden

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Seoul has long trodden a fine line between top trading partner China and defence guarantor the United States.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 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

As hip-hop rose from the streets to the mainstream in the 90s, the rappers and hustlers that broke through had few role models who had trodden that path before them.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024

The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë