trailblaze
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To trailblaze and succeed in the harsh EV market, the company decided it needed a presence in California, as well as near the traditional heart of car building in and around Detroit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
I got updates that said any teachers who want to try and do online classes can trailblaze how to figure that out.
From Slate ● May 2, 2020
I have to trailblaze and do this on my own.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2018
As the journalist Patrick Kingsley observes in his new book … ‘It takes young, mobile risk-takers to trailblaze a new route.’
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2017
As the journalist Patrick Kingsley observes, in his new book, “The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First-Century Refugee Crisis,” “It takes young, mobile risk-takers to trailblaze a new route.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
“Anne trailblazed that path for so many women, and beautifully captured the essence of people and what it meant to be human,” said daughter Gwendolyn Derk, a physician who lives near Portland, Ore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
The Ellon-based company has trailblazed a crowdfunding model since it was launched in Fraserburgh in 2007 by Mr Watt and co-founder Martin Dickie.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2022
In retrospect, the pairing couldn’t have been more felicitous, because McNally’s plays about the gay experience — especially “Love! Valour! Compassion! — trailblazed for “The Inheritance.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2019
"Shonda certainly trailblazed a lot of this current move in so many different ways," says Larry Wilmore.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2015
That contrasts sharply with the US, which trailblazed the concept of crime mapping by allowing third-party developers to use crime data published by local police forces to map reports of incidents.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2011
A trailblazing engineer, she is the first woman to lead one of the world’s major oil companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Smack in the middle of sensation and observation is Mary Harron’s trailblazing debut film, “I Shot Andy Warhol,” released 30 years ago this month, with a timely restoration rolling out theatrically this summer.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
The Guardian has described the series as "trailblazing" and Harris says she wants the show to delve into issues that have "really not been on screen before".
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
“A trailblazing figure in Black experimental video, he was widely recognized for works that used image, sound, and cultural iconography to examine representation, race, gender, ritual, history, and power,” the statement said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
Thomas Jones was a Confederate Secret Service veteran who had spent his entire life trailblazing through the fields, thickets, and forests of rural Maryland and navigating its streams, marshes, and rivers.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
