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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This discovery out of La Trobe University and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) in Australia and Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada unveils a previously unknown part of the process of cell death and renewal that could open the door to more effective drugs.
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Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
In this hypothetical, reducing the cost of cryogenics and control electronics would suddenly open the door to developing commercial applications of quantum compute at a dramatically lower cost.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Seating was in unusually short supply at the Hermantown City Hall on Monday night, as councilors took up a rezoning request that could open the door for the construction of a sprawling data center in the rural southwest corner of the Duluth-area community.
—Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
If Klingberg and/or Liljegren are unable to play on Friday, that would likely open the door for either Shakir Mukhamadullin or Vincent Desharnais, or both, to enter the lineup.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
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Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
In this hypothetical, reducing the cost of cryogenics and control electronics would suddenly open the door to developing commercial applications of quantum compute at a dramatically lower cost.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Seating was in unusually short supply at the Hermantown City Hall on Monday night, as councilors took up a rezoning request that could open the door for the construction of a sprawling data center in the rural southwest corner of the Duluth-area community.
—Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
If Klingberg and/or Liljegren are unable to play on Friday, that would likely open the door for either Shakir Mukhamadullin or Vincent Desharnais, or both, to enter the lineup.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 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 5 Nov. 2025.
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