open the door
idiom
: to make (something) easier or more likely to happen
—often + for or to
Her success opened the door for thousands of young women who wanted to play sports.
His experiences in the army opened the door to a career in politics.
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The clip ends with the owner managing to open the door—dragging the golden retriever along with it—as their other pets enter the frame to see them off.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The team says the invention could open the door to safer, more versatile ingestible and implantable medical devices.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
Tools should be designed not just to open the door to markets, but to help people walk through with confidence.
—Anmol Verma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Formula 1’s transformation into a cultural phenomenon is still unfolding, but for a sport that once felt closed off, particularly for Black and younger audiences, collaborations like this open the door for all.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 11 Sep. 2025
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The team says the invention could open the door to safer, more versatile ingestible and implantable medical devices.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
Tools should be designed not just to open the door to markets, but to help people walk through with confidence.
—Anmol Verma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Formula 1’s transformation into a cultural phenomenon is still unfolding, but for a sport that once felt closed off, particularly for Black and younger audiences, collaborations like this open the door for all.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for open the door
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“Open the door.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20the%20door. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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