open the floodgates
Example Sentences
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That decision could also open the floodgates, with schools using those entities to circumvent the cap.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
As Novo Nordisk Chief Financial Officer Karsten Munk Knudsen argued in an interview this week, this isn’t a price war, so much as a search for the price points that open the floodgates of access.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
That would open the floodgates for every challenge by a player on a caution to be looked at.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
If that was meant to open the floodgates, Ireland were sorely mistaken as Japan controlled the rest of the half.
From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025
When we were a block away from Calhoun Place, a barrage of thunder cracked open the floodgates to the sky.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
