trodden

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The path to investment success is easy to find because it’s well trodden and simple.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

"It's about meeting people that have done similar things, trodden similar paths, and being able to discuss that, and laugh and joke about things that have been happening," Dr Bennett says.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 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

He thought about the first day he had gone there, the strangeness of it, the way he had trodden about warily, like a cat, smelling out new things.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill