opening wedge
Example Sentences
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“It was always, then as now, designed to be an opening wedge in an effort to delegitimize whatever it was for everyone.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023
It’s the opening wedge of a wireless challenge to cable broadband.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2015
“From my perspective, this is the opening wedge in a larger battle to bring transparency to government,” said Blakeslee, who served as Assembly minority leader from 2009-2010.
From Washington Times • May 6, 2015
The plant was viewed as the opening wedge in a new re-industrialization of the Hudson River valley, considering Con Ed’s plans for the region this was not an unrealistic or paranoid view in the 1960s.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2015
An opening wedge had now been inserted in Chattanooga's prison doors, and by midnight the silent captain had thrown his whole weight against them and they fell.
From On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Hill, Frederick Trevor
