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steppingstone (plural steppingstones)

1. Alternative form of stepping stone
   • 2001 August 21, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Postdoc Trail: Long and Filled With Pitfalls”, in The New York Times‎:

     When Dr. Michael Dugan took his first postdoctoral research appointment in 1985, he considered it a steppingstone to a permanent theoretical physics post on a college faculty.

   • 2014 June 9, Kenneth Chang, “Seeing Obstacle-Filled Path to Mars”, in The New York Times‎:

     Dr. Lunine said that with steppingstones, people would look back positively at what had already been accomplished and be more likely to continue supporting a Mars program.

   • 2021 January 27, Elizabeth Williamson, “Rioters Followed a Long Conspiratorial Road to the Capitol”, in The New York Times‎:

     For many of the Capitol rioters and others who believe Mr. Trump won, it was not a large leap to “Stop the Steal” from a pathway of conspiratorial steppingstones that included the “Pizzagate” claim of 2016 that Democrats were running a child sex ring in the back of a popular Washington pizza parlor, the debunked allegation that a low-level Democratic National Committee aide was murdered for leaking Hillary Clinton’s emails and many more.

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• stepping-stone
• steppingstone

名詞

stepping-stone (plural stepping-stones)

1. Alternative form of stepping stone.
   • 1960 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railways: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 678:

     As I have said, it is not the intention of the Bundesbahn to use the diesel as a stepping-stone between steam and electric traction—a policy which, in the light of the excellent results obtained with modernised steam locomotives, it regards as uneconomical and unnecessary.

   • 2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 50-51:

     It had already been proved that paper soaked with silver chloride would blacken when exposed to sunlight; this discovery was one of the earliest stepping-stones toward the field of photography.

   • 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Delivering a basis for rail changes”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 32:

     "Yes, it is much more Government-controlled now. That is a stepping-stone towards what we all want, which is the Government stepping away again.