How to Use open the way in a Sentence

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  • But even if his campaign goes nowhere, his words could open the way for others.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • Later, these tractors would be used to tear down the fence and open the way for Hamas’s death squads.
    Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In some wars, a deadlock might open the way for peace negotiations.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Fortunately this trial happened and can open the way for more trials.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The two proposals would open the way for sports betting, but in strikingly different ways.
    Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The city docks project has been in its engineering phase; the county commission’s formal acceptance of the grant should open the way for bidding in the months ahead.
    Lawrence Specker | , al, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Our current proof-of-concept study shows promising results that open the way towards the use of haptics for human-canine communication.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 July 2019
  • For labels, this has simplified a lot of their A&R work and could open the way for promising talent to unlock their actual potential.
    Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
  • Any flaws in the process, such as not triggering a gene or stimulating it too much, can open the way for biological imbalances and possible disease.
    Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The idea that objectivity might be poisonous seems to open the way to a kind of brain-melting relativism, the end of the possibility of knowledge itself.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 June 2022
  • Any clear classification as culture would open the way for governments across Europe to fund video game titles, as film and TV.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 July 2023
  • But what Article 4 does is open the way for a special meeting of the NAC to consult over the next steps that the alliance should take.
    John Deni, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, the idea of studying mouse sperm as a distinguishing characteristic could open the way for future studies to go even further in depth, and apply the same analysis to even more species.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2018
  • By allowing scientists to control the timing and length of sleep, Donlea’s flies should open the way for all sorts of fascinating new experiments.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2011
  • The humanitarian deal could soon open the way for a restart of negotiations in Mexico, say Western diplomats tracking the process.
    Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Nonetheless, the recent agreement with NASA should drive investor optimism and potentially open the way to get more customers.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Russia says seizing Bakhmut would open the way to fully controlling the rest of the strategic eastern Donbas industrial region, one of the main objectives of its invasion a year ago.
    Reuters, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • It is designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for United States and Soviet spacecrafts in order to open the way for future joint flights.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • Kim and Scheffler, close friends, seemed to joke with each other to calm themselves down, then Kim made his putt to tie the tournament, but bogeyed the first playoff hole to open the way for Scheffler to win his sixth tournament of the year.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2024
  • Israel’s military had been working to open the way for Kurdish forces to take up positions in Iran’s northwest, with the ultimate aim of encouraging armed Kurds to rise up against Tehran.
    Maria Paula Mijares Torres, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • This gets you the full offline Office lineup built specifically for Mac, so files from a Windows machine open the way they’re supposed to, without hunting for a workaround or a free app that half-renders formatting.
    Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 26 July 2026
  • Buried deep within the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug-price negotiation provisions is language that could open the way to a new era of biomedical breakthroughs and smarter health spending.
    John L. Marshall, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The arrival of legal, adult-use sales in 2018 in California — the nation’s largest pot producer and the world’s fourth-largest economy — was seen as a breakthrough that would help open the way for federal legalization.
    Gene Johnson, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The exemption to Dangote Cement is seen as a softening of the government’s position on a border closure that started in August last year, and could open the way for other businesses to fully resume exports across the country’s land barriers.
    Emele Onu, Bloomberg.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Zelensky has insisted Ukraine’s constitution bars him from ceding any territory, while arguing a Ukrainian retreat from the Donbas — the eastern region claimed by Russia — would open the way for Russia to invade the rest of Ukraine, including Kyiv.
    Colin Meyn, The Hill, 18 Aug. 2025

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