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blaze the trail

VERB
push the envelope
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Pyka, says Norcia, is content to let others "blaze the trail" in finding the best way to operate in shared airspace.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

“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

Webber said rather than safeguard a small shark fishing industry, the U.S. should blaze the trail to protect the slow-growing, long-living fish.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

“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

If I'd had you or Buck ter blaze the trail for me I reckon I'd never have lost my way, same's I have done.

From Kiddie the Scout by Robert Leighton


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