Examples of trodden

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The target article describes some fascinating research that does not go down the well-trodden pathways of the usual studies of deception and false belief.
Any survey that provides a guide to this most well-trodden area of international history is to be welcomed.
We homeless ones are a law-abiding class of citizens, but even the worm will turn when trodden upon.
Does the yelping dog whose paw has been trodden on know what pain is like?
I regret that its promise of shedding new light on a well trodden area is only partially fulfilled.
Her wig is made up of bottle tops, left over from ordinary twentieth-century life, trodden into the dirt underfoot, pressed on to noticeboards.
The routes have been trodden by generation after generation of their kind, for longer than man can remember, with only the slightest variations.
Once such a step has been taken and new planets manipulated for their resources, then the road to ancestor type simulations is halfway trodden.
As such, the first four chapters cover well-trodden ground.
However, it does not begin to explore the less trodden path - the genuinely 'creative' side of sequencing.
Taves' treatment is clear, effective and sensitive in this relatively well-trodden academic area.
The theory of autobiography has become very well trodden terrain.
He made sure all parties signed the paper describing the trodden boundary, and that they would agree to respect that boundary.
Each of these well-trodden causal pathways thus serves as a part of our overall causal explanation.
We have been trodden upon and slighted in every way by the class who have comfortable villas to live in.
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