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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
trod .
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Examples
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Everything about it justifies Wendy Smith's conclusion that it trods a "well-worn path" in its depiction of a white man's sympathy for Indians, a feature of the novel that becomes obvious in just its first few pages and makes reading the whole of it (492 pages) laborious indeed.
Historical Fiction 2010
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A variety of sheep trods beckon, fashioned by nimble fell sheep, as I negotiate a hillside so steep it seems you can prepare to toboggan down the slate roofs of the dwellings below.
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The Shakespeare review, by James Fenton, is an interesting enough discussion of the viewing Skakespeare vs. reading him debate, but it trods well-worn ground.
Book Reviewing 2010
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He kills it on his chest but then trods on it, allowing it to run out of play.
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Body Double, from three years later, trods a similar path (De Palma even opens the film with a similar movie-within-a-movie).
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The script by Craig Wright has fun for a while, even as it trods cliched territory.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Al Pacino in Subtle Merchant Of Venice; An Obvious Elf and More Michael Giltz 2010
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Body Double, from three years later, trods a similar path (De Palma even opens the film with a similar movie-within-a-movie).
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The script by Craig Wright has fun for a while, even as it trods cliched territory.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Al Pacino in Subtle Merchant Of Venice; An Obvious Elf and More Michael Giltz 2010
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The situation in many ways trods the path of then-President Bill Clinton's failed bid to extend health insurance to all Americans in 1993 and 1994.
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And in Germany, a dog dressed for the holidays trods along in the Santa Claus run.
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