Thesaurus results for STAGES

stages 1 of 2

noun

plural of stage

as in podiums

a level usually raised surface spoke to the audience from a small stage in front

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Relevance

as in legs

a portion of a trip this is only the first stage of the journey

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as in phases

an individual part of a process, series, or ranking in the last stage of the project

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stages

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of stage

as in offers

to bring before the public in performance or exhibition staged the full body of Shakespeare's plays in the course of a year

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Recent Examples of stages

Noun

The litigation continued through 2025 and into 2026, with both sides claiming victories at various stages. —

Janelle Ash , Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026 The new German shipyard, founded by engineer and entrepreneur Mike Frank earlier this year, has announced that the first unit of its new solar-electric catamaran is entering the final stages of construction. —

Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 June 2026 It has not been tested in humans, has not been reviewed by the FDA and is several stages away from any pharmacy shelf. —

Allison Palmer updated June 13, Miami Herald, 13 June 2026 That's followed by the knockout stages with a round of 32, then 16, followed by the quarterfinals, semifinals and the final. —

Mike Toole, CBS News, 13 June 2026 Guests will have two stages of entertainment to choose from, plus the Artists’ Alley, multiple Fun Zones, the Ocean Beergarden, and wings and burger eating contests. —

Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2026 Although the small Barracuda hypersonic suborbital rocket is capable of reaching 100 km, this rocket did not do so due to an anomaly in the later stages of its flight. —

Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026 Recognizing Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke The early stages of heat illness are easy to dismiss. —

John Samuels, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 The renewable energy groups allege that the Pentagon stopped countersigning final agreements starting in August 2025 and then progressively slowed the rest of the review process until all stages stopped in April. —

Jennifer McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026

Verb

Somewhere between the airport and the hotel, your gut stages a revolt. —

Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2026 The idea, Nottapon says, emerged from a thought Jakkarin articulated during development – that a courtroom is less a place of discovery than a kind of theater, where each side stages its own version of reality for the judge. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 June 2026 During the World Cup group stages matches, Long Beach will host several free community events along Pine Avenue in downtown. —

Kristy Hutchings, Daily News, 10 June 2026 Thunder delivers on all counts, with an iconic mountain that stages a variety of creative scenes, both inside and outside the mountain. —

Robert Niles, Oc Register, 9 June 2026 This bit is now pretty simple because the knockout stages work just like any other bracket in any other sport. —

Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 June 2026 Barnett’s Bruin, in turn, unlocks those desires — Wills stages a haunting and sexy moment where Bruin does tai chi with a toy sword of power that’s probably thematically richer than anything in the He-Man film that’s coming out this week. —

Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 June 2026 Priya Das, co-founder of Mosaic America, the umbrella organization that stages the festival, says its year-round mission is to create meaningful ways for groups to share their traditions with the larger community. —

Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 2 June 2026 Through its characters, the book stages an argument about the virtues of various types of maps—those that are measured, those that are recollected, those that are dreamed. —

Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stages

Noun

Isack Hadjar isn’t letting anyone take his eyes off the prize, and in Formula 1, that prize is podiums and Grand Prix wins.

— Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 19 Nov. 2025
Leclerc scored four podiums through the summer European races, with a rear-suspension upgrade that arrived for Spa being a big breakthrough to remedy that ride-height issue.

— Luke Smith, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025