"steppingstone" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "steppingstones",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "stepping stone"
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          "ref": "2001 August 21, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Postdoc Trail: Long and Filled With Pitfalls”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014 June 9, Kenneth Chang, “Seeing Obstacle-Filled Path to Mars”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 27, Elizabeth Williamson, “Rioters Followed a Long Conspiratorial Road to the Capitol”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "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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        "Alternative form of stepping stone"
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          "ref": "2001 August 21, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Postdoc Trail: Long and Filled With Pitfalls”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 June 9, Kenneth Chang, “Seeing Obstacle-Filled Path to Mars”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 27, Elizabeth Williamson, “Rioters Followed a Long Conspiratorial Road to the Capitol”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "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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        }
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          "stepping stone#English"
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