stepping-stone
Example Sentences
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Whale falls are "almost like islands," De Leo explains, calling them "a stepping-stone habitat for this and many other whale bone specialist species."
From Science Daily • Dec. 28, 2025
The town has borne the brunt of Russian advances in recent months and is a stepping-stone to the key logistical hub of Pokrovsk.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025
Some aspiring emigrants suggest that these days, even getting tourist visas — seen as a stepping-stone to emigration — has become a challenge for Turks.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023
I think everybody who has a garden can help species to create a stepping-stone so that they can move to higher latitudes.
From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2022
Why else had he been willing to languish in the shadow of the vice presidency for those godforsaken years if not to use it as a stepping-stone to the prize itself?
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
