other words for stepping-stone
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- mechanism
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- power
- process
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- step
- system
- tactic
- technique
- vehicle
- agency
- agent
- apparatus
- auspices
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- course
- dodge
- expedient
- fashion
- gimmick
- instrumentality
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- manner
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- path
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- trick
- modus operandi
- ways and means
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
A path two feet deep had been worn into the stepping-stone at the entrance.
And full well Joan realized that in this big venture of hers the old, except as a stepping-stone, was separated forever.
Education is not only compulsory, but it is the only stepping-stone to high preferment in the civil service of the government.
The episcopal chair was often but the stepping-stone to the scaffold.
Once, twice, three times Courney had been a stepping-stone in the swept and garnished pathways of battle.
Now it was demanded of her by a man who, having promised to serve her, had merely used her as a stepping-stone to power.
Van Tiefel was but a stepping-stone; he was not made for the desk of a counting-house.
He used the law merely as a stepping-stone to what he considered a more attractive condition in the political world.
Who knows but what this may be a stepping-stone into a successful career?
A harsher course might have led to ruin—the milder one was the stepping-stone to the woolsack and a peerage.
WORDS RELATED TO STEPPING-STONE
- agency
- agent
- aid
- apparatus
- auspices
- avenue
- channel
- course
- dodge
- equipment
- expedient
- factor
- fashion
- gimmick
- instrument
- instrumentality
- intermediary
- machinery
- manner
- measure
- mechanism
- medium
- ministry
- mode
- modus operandi
- organ
- organization
- paraphernalia
- path
- power
- process
- road
- route
- step
- stepping-stone
- system
- tactic
- technique
- trick
- vehicle
- ways and means
- agency
- agent
- aid
- apparatus
- auspices
- avenue
- channel
- course
- dodge
- equipment
- expedient
- factor
- fashion
- gimmick
- instrument
- instrumentality
- instrumentation
- intermediary
- machinery
- manner
- measure
- mechanism
- medium
- ministry
- mode
- modus operandi
- organ
- organization
- paraphernalia
- path
- power
- process
- road
- route
- step
- stepping-stone
- system
- tactic
- technique
- trick
- vehicle
- ways and means