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Recent Examples on the Web Yamaguchi, the western city near Hiroshima where macaques have bitten and scratched dozens of people in recent weeks, may be a perfect staging ground for monkey attacks: Its residential neighborhoods are sandwiched between hills and mountains. — Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022 Kherson, a port and shipbuilding center that Russia seized early in the war, is also a staging ground for Russian military operations across southern Ukraine. — New York Times, 20 July 2022 Belarus hosts Russian military units and was used as a staging ground for Russia's invasion. — Arkansas Online, 3 July 2022 Belarus hosts Russian military units and was used as a staging ground before Russia invaded Ukraine, but its own troops have not crossed the border. — Oleksandr Stashevskyi, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2022 Belarus hosts Russian military units and was used as a staging ground before Russia invaded Ukraine, but its own troops have not crossed the border. — David Keyton, John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2022 Belarus hosts Russian military units and was used as a staging ground for Russia's invasion. — Arkansas Online, 3 July 2022 In the decades that followed, La Leona attracted other ramblers, becoming a staging ground for wide-eyed mountaineers headed up the spindly peaks that loom over the horizon, most notably Mount Fitz Roy. — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2022 Altar, about 60 miles south of Sasabe, Ariz., has long been known as a staging ground for immigrant smuggling and is reportedly controlled by a faction of the Sinaloa cartel. — Washington Post, 4 July 2022 See More

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“Staging ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staging%20ground. Accessed 19 Aug. 2022.

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