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paving

verb as in cover with asphalt, concrete

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The incumbent president dropped out of the race mere months before Election Day due to mounting pressure around his age and fitness, paving the way for Harris to take a space at the top of the Democratic Party's ticket.

From Salon

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved the county’s purchase of the Gas Company Tower, one of downtown L.A.’s most prominent skyscrapers, paving the way for the transfer of thousands of workers and public services out of the city’s civic center.

Mr Gray, from Shipley, who started working as a stone dresser in 1997, used power and hand tools to make paving slabs from reclaimed quarried stone.

From BBC

Dr Paul Stephenson OBE organised the boycott which overturned a ban on people from ethnic minorities working on buses in the city and was instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act in 1965.

From BBC

It was Trump who had made the Supreme Court more conservative, paving the way for the abortion ruling.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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