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blaze the trail

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push the envelope
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“I blaze the trail for the rest to walk in,” Alva declared, as quoted in The Washington Post’s review of Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe’s book about the Vanderbilts.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2025

“I blaze the trail for the rest to walk in. I was the first girl of my ‘set’ to marry a Vanderbilt.

From Washington Post Sep. 23, 2021

Other migrants in the party told agents foot guides, the smugglers hired to blaze the trail through the desert, carried the child from Sasabe, on the Mexican side, to a load-up spot in the U.S.

From Washington Times Aug. 5, 2021

“We blaze the trail, we do the hard work, and then we’re out.”

From New York Times Jun. 23, 2014

The first pair, who would be the pathfinders and blaze the trail for those coming after, would leave at ten o'clock, the next pair twenty minutes later, then the next, and so on.

From The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)




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