The phrase "a common path for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a frequently taken route or method for achieving something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "Education is often seen as a common path for individuals seeking to improve their career prospects."
Alternatives: "a typical route for" or "a frequent avenue for".
This is a common path for the best players from South America.
In truth, they are so easily reëlected that a common path for a successful prosecutor is toward higher office.
It is such a common path for ambitious future leaders that, according to one former member, its motto should be "The Egos Have Landed".
Bowie had every right to protect the privacy of his final days, and if the reports are true that his terminal liver cancer began in his lungs (a common path for lung cancer), this was likely a second round.
They expected to agree on a common path for cutting the world's carbon output, dole out key nations' specific obligations and create a common market for trading greenhouse emissions.
A common path for staging such resistance among participants in both the Knapp study and in the present sample was the display of traditionally masculine attributes, such as strength, aggression, and muscularity.
Darwin moved to Cambridge, where he began to train to be a clergyman--a common path for affluent young Englishman with an interest in nature.
And an insufficiency of dopamine neurotransmission at D2 receptors seems implicated in depression, and its pharmacological correction as possibly a common path of action for antidepressant drugs, especially by the ongoing research of Paul Willner (e.g., 2002).
Being an entrepreneur in the tech industry is not a common path to take for young graduates in the Philippines, where I'm originally from.
SELLING zucchini door to door is not a common path to Wall Street wizardry, but it worked for Joel C. Tillinghast.
Johnson has been a disruptive force for months, sabotaging efforts to find a common path through the Brexit maze.
