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"etymology_text": "From the idea that once a paved path has been laid, travel on the route is easier and smoother for others.",
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"text": "A perverting of this Firſt and Original Chriſtian Principle, by Political and Aſpiring Church-Guides, […] did not only pave the way for Popery, but both laid the Foundation thereof and finiſh'd its Superſtructure: […]",
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"text": "The gratification of one inordinate pursuit paves the way for another; and no sooner is the present vain wish indulged, than a future imagined necessity arises, equally importunate.",
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"text": "Prince Louis Napoleon was president of France, and his dictatorial behaviour was paving the way for his assumption of the imperial crown."
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"ref": "1988, Sue-Ellen Case, “Radical Feminism and Theatre”, in Feminism and Theatre, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 62",
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"word": "allanar el camino"
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},
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