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

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

Well, in thinking about your chances of success, it helps to look at those who have trodden that path and ended up with a flourishing enterprise to their name.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024

The track to the Foresters' farm was bare mud, trodden into mire by the feet of horses and cows and sheep and dogs.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman