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Means to gradual progress
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stepping stone
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Stepping Stone is the fourth studio album released by American country music artist Lari White . Released on July 28, 1998 as her first album for Lyric Street Records after leaving RCA Nashville . The album's title track was a Top 20 hit on the Billboard ...
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n. a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing any means of advancement; "the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches"
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alt. 1 A stone that can be stepped on in crossing something, especially a marsh or creek. 2 (context idiomatic English) Something used as a way to progress to something or somewhere else. n. 1 A stone that can be stepped on in crossing something, especially ...
Usage examples of stepping stone.
The sudden shift caught her off guard, almost tumbling her off her safe perch on a broad stepping stone.
The young woman crossed the stream, hopping from stepping stone to stepping stone with perfect balance, and came grinning toward me up the grassy knoll.
Techniques that specialized in using a person's life force as a stepping stone to recovery.
Snow had fallen from the sides of their mountain and compacted to slippery ice under their feet Michael was very tired and glad to see the stepping stone.
He picked up his pace, barely feeling the pressure of his soles on the boards, the sense growing in him that however real this scene felt it was another of his mind's inventions, shaped from fragments of memory to ease him through what would otherwise have driven him mad: a stepping stone between the dreaming wakefulness of the life he'd left and whatever paradox lay ahead.