Thesaurus results for STEPS IN

steps in

verb

present tense third-person singular of step in

as in visits

to make a brief visit I just stepped in to say hi on my way to class

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as in substitutes

to serve as a replacement usually for a time only couldn't find anyone to step in for me so that I could take a break from my caregiving duties

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Recent Examples of steps in The neighborhood/area Daunt’s sits in the middle of Montauk’s classic motel zone, with the Plaza and restaurants and shops along Highway 27 a few steps in one direction and Kirby Park Beach in the other. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026 The developers will next prepare construction drawings and take other steps in anticipation of breaking ground in about two years. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 Finding The Right Agentic Approach We're building toward a workflow where the buyer sets the goal and the system runs the steps in between. — Phoena Pang, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 The differing accounts underscore a significant gap between how the US and Iran are describing the next steps in negotiations. — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 15 June 2026 That’s where AcePDF Converter & Editor steps in. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 8 June 2026 The Manitou Incline, located at the base of Pikes Peak, gains 2,000 feet of elevation over 2,768 steps in less than a mile. — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 25 May 2026 Washington — The Senate is returning to Washington on Monday from a week-long recess as Republicans prepare to take the next steps in their plan to fund immigration agencies under the Department of Homeland Security without help from Democrats. — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 May 2026 This is among the first steps in characterizing the quality of a particular cacao. — Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 May 2026

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At the end of the first season, when Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys visits Storm’s End to petition House Baratheon to join their cause, he and Alicent’s second son, Aemond, trade barbs.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Breakthrough has relationships with several schools in the area and regularly visits schools to present its program to area fourth graders, Cox said.

— Austin Horn July 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

Definition of visits

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Spain substitutes Ferran Torres and Mikel Merino capitalised on Portugal’s first real lapse in concentration to score a dramatic stoppage-time winner, but this was a dull watch.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 11 July 2026
Another way to say this is that, in place of the extensive self-announcements Plato allows his characters, Rochester substitutes his own summary judgements, his sarcastic imitations.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Definition of substitutes

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Previous winners of this award have earned big moves off the back of the achievement, but others have suffered drops in form afterwards.

— Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Both showed drops in pTau217, a blood biomarker linked to Alzheimer’s progression, of 47% and 19%.

— Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026

Definition of drops in

Verb

Cristobal calls change ‘a positive step’ This new process would have benefited Miami greatly last year when determining who would make the conference championship.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
These 126 spacecraft will be part of a larger LEO network that the SDA calls the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 July 2026