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

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

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

The shape of the old assembly, trodden in the grass, listened to him.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding