as in trail
a rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps
found the footpath leading down into the valley
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Recent Examples of footpath
Towns and businesses need the trail’s traffic The Appalachian Trail is more than a footpath for many people.
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Graham Hurley, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
For thousands of years, people have been walking through the densely populated British Isles, weaving from farms to fields to ever shrinking forests and leaving a record of their movements in the form of footpaths.
—Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
The transition along the winding footpaths between them is seamless, and guests on a half-board booking at either have access to the restaurants and saltwater swimming pools at both.
—Ann Abel, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
As this happens, many Chinese companies themselves are investing and moving abroad on the footpaths set by the Belt and Road initiative.
—Radu Magdin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Graham Hurley, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
For thousands of years, people have been walking through the densely populated British Isles, weaving from farms to fields to ever shrinking forests and leaving a record of their movements in the form of footpaths.
—Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
The transition along the winding footpaths between them is seamless, and guests on a half-board booking at either have access to the restaurants and saltwater swimming pools at both.
—Ann Abel, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
As this happens, many Chinese companies themselves are investing and moving abroad on the footpaths set by the Belt and Road initiative.
—Radu Magdin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for footpath
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The worker shortage due to the strike, along with light early season snowfall, meant that only 50 of 350 trails were open between Christmas and New Year’s—the busiest week of the ski season.Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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As of Monday, only 104 of 350 trails and 26 of 41 lifts were open, according to the resort's .Shannon McDonagh, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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In the landscape of a story, fact checkers’ trails can often be followed along a path of hedges and denials, but an elegant fix may render the footwork behind it invisible.Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
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Roughly 37,000 people in the path of the Palisades Fire were ordered to leave their homes in the cities of Calabasas, Malibu and Los Angeles, law enforcement and fire officials said.Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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The Trump administration is expected to try to expand the accords to include Saudi Arabia, which would most likely require some kind of Israeli acceptance of a pathway to Palestinian statehood.Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Louisiana’s communities, particularly those affected by the war on drugs, needed what this program could provide: jobs, education and a pathway to economic empowerment.Javier Hasse, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Footpath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footpath. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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