staging area
noun
: an area in which participants in a new especially military operation or mission are assembled and readied
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Each victim was hoisted from the field by helicopter and transported to Sno-Cats staged at the Frog Lake huts before being taken to the sheriff’s staging area, where the chief deputy coroner was waiting.
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Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 22 Feb. 2026
The staging area for equipment and supplies is the parking lot closest to the gazebo, not far from the new field 9.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
It may not be used as a staging area or for any operations related to civil immigration enforcement.
—Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 15 Feb. 2026
Miguel Segura’s elderly parents live in a village in Veracruz, Mexico, far from the staging area set up Friday as police and firefighters searched the Fox River and surrounding area for the 52-year-old man missing for more than six weeks.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
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Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 22 Feb. 2026
The staging area for equipment and supplies is the parking lot closest to the gazebo, not far from the new field 9.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
It may not be used as a staging area or for any operations related to civil immigration enforcement.
—Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 15 Feb. 2026
Miguel Segura’s elderly parents live in a village in Veracruz, Mexico, far from the staging area set up Friday as police and firefighters searched the Fox River and surrounding area for the 52-year-old man missing for more than six weeks.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
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“Staging area.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staging%20area. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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