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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pave.

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Examples

  • In addition from helping Deutsche to meet the new capital and liquidity requirements for banks, the cash call paves the way for the Frankfurt-based bank to launch a takeover of

    Hispanic Business Magazine 2010

  • I guess that broken sword paves the way for the upcoming Sidearm Sideswipe figure.

    Transformers News - All News NIBMRatchet 2010

  • The blighted designation paves the way for the town to condemn and acquire 29 small businesses including a discount store, a bar-restaurant and a mini mart.

    unknown title 2009

  • It was steak for tea, tonite; lovely chunks of Belgian beef - 'paves' as they call them because they resemble cobble stones.

    PezCyclingNews.com 2009

  • Death of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, which establishes English as a literary language and paves the way for Shakespeare.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Death of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, which establishes English as a literary language and paves the way for Shakespeare.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • “The Americans have plentifully enjoyed the delights and comforts, as well as the necessaries of life,” said the Newport Mercury, “and it is well known that an increase of wealth and affluence paves the way to an increase of luxury, immorality and profaneness, and here kind providence interposes; and as it were, obliges them to forsake the use of one of their delights, to preserve their liberty.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • "It respects the will of the American people and it paves the way to reform our healthcare."

    Republicans repeal healthcare reforms in symbolic vote 2011

  • HANOI — Vietnam's Communist Party reappointed Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to its elite Politburo at a secretive congress Wednesday, in a move that paves the way for the nation's top leader to serve a second term, despite economists' concerns about his willingness to apply tough measures to tackle double-digit inflation rates.

    Vietnamese Premier Is Poised for New Term James Hookway 2011

  • *** Asia Vietnam's Communist Party reappointed Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to its elite Politburo at a secretive congress, in a move that paves the way for the nation's top leader to serve a second term despite economists' concerns about his willingness to apply tough measures to tackle double-digit inflation rates.

    World Watch 2011

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