trodden

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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

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

Until then, however, humans are likely to continue their small steps into the cosmos, on a path long trodden by robotic explorers before them.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

The cables came into being in the late 1800s, after celebrated geologist Josiah Whitney proclaimed the 8,800-foot summit of Half Dome “perfectly inaccessible” and declared it would “never be trodden by human foot.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

There was a path beneath my feet, clearly trodden and winding farther into The Woods.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff