staging area

My living room looks like the staging area for an academic Lollapalooza.

The garage is a literal and figurative mudroom, a staging area for life.

News organizations were forced to abandon staging areas outside the building because of attacks by rioters, prosecutors said, leading to the vandalism.

Woods later entered a media staging area, threw equipment and tackled a cameraman, prosecutors alleged.

On the other side, he knew, lay a packed snowmobile road he’d used as a staging area for his heliski clients earlier that winter, where the going would be easier.

He goes down to the secure motorcade staging area, looking for a solution.

Had cattle chewed down the grass or had it been groomed to be a staging area for moving contraband?