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The phrase "smoothing the path" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe taking action to make something easier or less complicated, for example: "He dedicated himself to smoothing the path to success for his children."
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Better to use it as a means of smoothing the path to a low-carbon world.
They come for profit not patriotism, but the White House is smoothing the path, said Mr Branco, the oil minister.
To some observers, the administration is also too keen to please Beijing, wasting leverage rather than smoothing the path to greater gains.
But Mr Mugabe wrong-footed the Southern African Development Community SADCC), a regional body charged with smoothing the path to elections, by decreeing an earlier date.
Mr. Sarkozy would do himself, and the Libyan democratic cause he supports, a big favor by smoothing the path to NATO leadership.
He is, though, a "trickle down" believer, a free enterprise evangelist convinced that smoothing the path for the most prosperous is the best thing for everyone in the end.
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Instead of complaining about the U.N., Washington should smooth the path for its return.
Many analysts believe that the disqualifications have smoothed the path for Jalili to potentially succeed Ahmadinejad.
FIFA has, as ever, done what it could to smooth the path for the host.
(Timely exhibition of modest wit certainly smooths the path of redemption).
2013 Synod votes in favour of new "guiding principles" to smooth the path towards female bishops.
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