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Recent Examples of way station
Syria under Assad used to be one of Tehran’s most important pieces on the Middle East chessboard, a country that provided Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a way station to send weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
Keen observers of authoritarianism see the mass firing of civil servants as a way station on the road to autocracy.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
For them, this is no temporary way station, Wui suffering from an illness that makes the Sea a final destination.
—Lauren Leblanc, New York Times, 20 May 2025
To put it another way, offshoring is often only a way station on the road to automation.
—Michael Spence, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2014
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Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
Keen observers of authoritarianism see the mass firing of civil servants as a way station on the road to autocracy.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
For them, this is no temporary way station, Wui suffering from an illness that makes the Sea a final destination.
—Lauren Leblanc, New York Times, 20 May 2025
To put it another way, offshoring is often only a way station on the road to automation.
—Michael Spence, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for way station
station
Noun
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Investigators were able to determine that in at least two of the robberies, the suspect fled to nearby BART stations and boarded trains.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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Rancho Coastal Humane Society will waive adoption fees on adult pets 6 months and older through Aug. 31 a part of the annual Clear The Shelters pet adoption and donation campaign led by NBC and Telemundo stations, which features an extended fundraising campaign through Sept. 15.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Way station.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/way%20station. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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