way station
noun
1
: a station set between principal stations on a line of travel (such as a railroad)
2
: an intermediate stopping place
Examples of way station in a Sentence
a way station for truck drivers
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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
See All Example Sentences for way station
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“Way station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/way%20station. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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