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The phrase "are trampled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is being crushed or overrun, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In the chaos of the protest, the flowers in the garden are trampled underfoot."
Alternatives: "are crushed" or "are stomped on".
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are trampled
verb
To crush something by walking on it.
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Yes, those priorities are trampled nearly everywhere in this country.
Stuart Davis saw it as "a masochistic reception whereat the naïve hosts are trampled and stomped by the European guests at the buffet".
A curious indifference to the locals grows as recently planted fields are trampled, livestock killed by grenades and compensation paid for damaged property.
"A Raisin in the Sun," which has never been produced at Crossroads before (the musical version, "Raisin," was performed in 1982), qualifies as a tragedy: big dreams are trampled because of one man's misjudgment.
"Where basic human rights are trampled and peaceful demands for change met by brutal violence, people are eventually compelled to have recourse to rebellion against tyranny and oppression," the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, said Wednesday.
"It was dehumanizing and brutalizing, and when I was an interne and resident in B — I learned what horrible places hospitals are — how the patient's needs are trampled underfoot and everything is done for the staff's convenience.
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He added, "Our property rights are being trampled".
Others were trampled underfoot as survivors tried to escape.
They can be trampled, and the crop will still yield.
So my peas were trampled and shat all over.
He must fend for his life or be trampled underfoot.
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