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Recent Examples of way station
Keen observers of authoritarianism see the mass firing of civil servants as a way station on the road to autocracy.
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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
This was to be a way station, not a terminus; after disembarking there, immigrants would be encouraged to fan out, helping to establish Jewish communities throughout the southwestern half of the nation.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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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
This was to be a way station, not a terminus; after disembarking there, immigrants would be encouraged to fan out, helping to establish Jewish communities throughout the southwestern half of the nation.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for way station
station
Noun
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What does this mean for NPR, PBS, and local stations?—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Aug. 2025
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With an advanced appropriations cycle, the CPB also helped give stations certainty in their budgets.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
1 Aug. 2025
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