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  • adjective not visited by many travelers.

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  • adjective not visited by many travelers

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Examples

  • People assume that the choice of the less-traveled road is obvious to the traveler.

    The Road Less Traveled : Bev Vincent 2009

  • Often, browsing the citations of an author will send me off a wild chase through a less-traveled area of the bookstore.

    How Do You Read? « Write Anything 2009

  • But for the most part I'm more interested in the less-traveled writers that get mentioned, most of all by Michael Dirda's post on Tuesday.

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

  • Peter Kinloch climbed the world's highest mountain from the Chinese side, a less-traveled route than that which leaves from Nepal.

    The Daily Goodbye 2010

  • I don't remember the white stones outlining the trail which was definitely less-traveled the farther we went, though a large group of kids on horses came off the trail just as we got started.

    January 2010 2010

  • The road less-traveled is often full of delicious detours.

    Michael Laiskonis: Travel Like a Chef Michael Laiskonis 2010

  • CNN reports today on both of them for taking the road less-traveled (by most pop stars and college students, that is): celibacy.

    Lady Gaga, Frannie Boyle Choose Abstinence 2010

  • CNN reports today on both of them for taking the road less-traveled (by most pop stars and college students, that is): celibacy.

    Lady Gaga, Frannie Boyle Choose Abstinence 2010

  • Four-year colleges still maintain healthy enrollments, but the "traditional" four-year college road to a good job is becoming the less-traveled one (last year's "College Issue" of the Boston Globe featured an article titled "The Four-Year College Myth" that illustrates this change).

    Guest blog: The 'Four-Year College Myth' 2010

  • I don't remember the white stones outlining the trail which was definitely less-traveled the farther we went, though a large group of kids on horses came off the trail just as we got started.

    Pets 2010

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