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blaze the trail

VERB
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

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

Clinton held back and let them blaze the trail, they said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2016

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

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2014

He could only work, blaze the trail, make the clearing, raise the homestead, and when it was ready go and tell her so.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine




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