glide path

noun

1

: glide slope

2

: a course of action that leads easily to an expected outcome

While Markey has been a fine member of Congress for decades, he isn't owed a glide path to another term.

—Adrian Walker

… a state that invests more in locking up prisoners than in opening doors to education is on a glide path to mediocrity.

—John Stobo

Elite law schools are not always a glide path to becoming a partner at a big law firm.

—Elizabeth Olson

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

On our glide path to extinction. —Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021

That turbulence knocked us off our glide path. —Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021

Secretary of State William F. Galvin, a Brighton Democrat, also appears on a glide path to a historic eighth term in office. —Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022

The July data had stoked optimism that the Fed’s interest rate hikes were already taming the beast, the peak was past, and consumer prices would meaningfully fall in August, sending the U.S. on a glide path to the Fed’s 2% target and creating space for the central bank to ease up. —Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2022

Along with his 0-3 mark against Belichick, who came out on top, 21-13, in the 2017 contest against Lynn’s first team, the Chargers boss is 1-7 against Andy Reid, a division rival whose Chiefs (11-1) are on a glide path to a fifth AFC West title in a row. —Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020

This should be considered a national strength to build on, not a national shame to be put on a glide path to extinction. —Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020

As a result, the glide path McCarthy envisioned to the speaker’s gavel was far more of a grind. —Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022

The GOP seems on a glide path to win at least enough seats in November’s elections to overtake the Democrats’ razor-thin margin. —Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Apr. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1