How to Use smooth the way in a Sentence

smooth the way

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• Even with connections to smooth the way, there is a process.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, Longreads, 17 Nov. 2021
• Maria and David Breaux were especially close, able to joke about the awful events in their lives and finding solace in two aunts who saw their intellect and tried to smooth the way.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• The purpose of the money will be to smooth the way for budding entrepreneurs coming out of local universities and starting businesses, the EDA said.
  — Anthony McAuley | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• What’s ahead: The White House hopes to smooth the way for its nominee even though the Senate in recent years has been an increasingly vicious battleground for such nominations.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
• The president of the nation’s second-largest teachers union is calling for full-time in-person school this fall, a move that could smooth the way back after a year when teachers often resisted a return to classrooms.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• China has also in the past released political dissidents ahead of major foreign leader visits to help smooth the way, though this was mostly before Xi took power.
  — Mark Clifford, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• Authorities nationwide have worked to smooth the way in the run-up to the congress -- a particularly sensitive time -- by tightening already-strict Covid rules and declaring more lockdowns.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• This month, the Biden administration has made new commitments to up government research and development funding, as well as to smooth the way for new private investment.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2021
• Bensouda wrote that her office had taken steps to preserve evidence gathered in the preliminary investigation to smooth the way for a formal probe.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2021
• The pandemic experience of supply shortages and high prices, which has benefited dealers and manufacturers alike, may help smooth the way for an agreement.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2022
• Projection is another interesting skill which is acquired toward the end of the game, giving Raz the power to conjure a two-dimensional version of himself that can be sent past gates and other obstacles to smooth the way forward.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
• Republican senators sparred at their closed-door lunch Tuesday, one side arguing against doing anything that would smooth the way for Democrats' broader bill, according to a person granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
• Republican senators sparred at their closed-door lunch Tuesday, one side arguing against doing anything that would smooth the way for Democrats’ broader bill, according to a person granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting.
  — Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2021
• The Pathway system, which includes an online workforce readiness portal and an app, is designed to smooth the way for those seeking employment by aggregating social service, education and job training.
  — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021
• Talking about these 3 things first can smooth the way, according to a couples therapist Research has suggested that our conflict resolution styles are related to our personalities and attachment histories.
  — Sam Carr, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• Governments say getting vaccinated and having proper documentation will smooth the way to travel, entertainment and other social gatherings in a post-pandemic world.
  — Laurie Kellman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• Governments say getting vaccinated and having proper documentation will smooth the way to travel, entertainment, and other social gatherings in a post-pandemic world.
  — Laurie Kellman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024