open the door to

1. Also, open doors. Create an opportunity for, as in Legalizing marijuana may open the door to all kinds of abuse, or Her statement opened the door to further discussion, or Dad's connections at the hospital have opened doors for Richard's colleagues at medical school. [Late 1600s]

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Third, if we don’t enforce red lines, we open the door to the unthinkable.

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He was trying to force open the door to get inside when police opened fire.

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RRM-based strategies seem designed less to address these issues than to stigmatize IVF and open the door to legal restrictions on it—or at least to defeat measures that make IVF more affordable.

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If we stop seeing deafness as a limitation, we begin to open the door to entirely new forms of artistry, collaboration and perception.

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Additionally, a credits montage titled “Christmas in Paris” shows snapshots of them spending the holiday together and an onscreen letter from Han thanking fans that appears to open the door to more of Belly and Conrad’s story: “Maybe we’ll meet again one summer in Cousins.”

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