: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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Anyone getting off at the Lake Street CTA Red Line subway stop on Sunday might have noticed some new signage near the station's stairways to street level.
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CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Replacing the trail bridge, timber stairway and fence at Pontiac Canyon.
—Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
Firefighters braved a heavy gas odor, flames, collapsing walls and even a second explosion to rescue people trapped in stairways and elevator shafts and under rubble, authorities said.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2025
But the salt air has taken a toll, and the stairways and landings going down to the beach were in bad shape with peeling paint, crumbling concrete steps and exposed, rusting rebar.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
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CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Replacing the trail bridge, timber stairway and fence at Pontiac Canyon.
—Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
Firefighters braved a heavy gas odor, flames, collapsing walls and even a second explosion to rescue people trapped in stairways and elevator shafts and under rubble, authorities said.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2025
But the salt air has taken a toll, and the stairways and landings going down to the beach were in bad shape with peeling paint, crumbling concrete steps and exposed, rusting rebar.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
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“Stairway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairway. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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stairway
noun
stair·way
-ˌwā 
: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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