pave the way

Idioms  

1. Make progress or development easier, as in Her findings paved the way for developing a new vaccine. This expression alludes to paving a road so it is easier to travel on. [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

These tears were the cleansing kind, the sort that pave the way for fresh starts, second chances, that allow a person to see ugly in the world and not look away, but to see beauty, too, the potential for love.

From Literature

For his part, he did his best to pave the way for me.

From Literature

Tesla’s successes, however, helped pave the way for Musk to keep SpaceX private in the midst of a new appetite from investors around the world to fuel money into another improbable manufacturing startup.

From The Wall Street Journal

The move could pave the way for Binance to return to the U.S. market, where it had been banned in 2023 after the company and Zhao pleaded guilty to violating anti-money-laundering rules.

From The Wall Street Journal

He never realized his dream of becoming Hollywood’s first Black romantic leading man, but he helped pave the way for actors like Denzel Washington, Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan.

From The Wall Street Journal

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