: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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This was where the story, or at least my story, ended: atop a stairway to an empty platform where an invisible train had already passed.
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Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
An open stairway to the second floor is detailed as are the walls, which feature shadow boxing that extends up the stairway to the second floor landing and hall.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025
And what's in Jim's hand as he's seen descending the stairways?
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
As Karen looks up to the rooftop, Cherry emerges on the roof from the stairway, his gun drawn.
—Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
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Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
An open stairway to the second floor is detailed as are the walls, which feature shadow boxing that extends up the stairway to the second floor landing and hall.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025
And what's in Jim's hand as he's seen descending the stairways?
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
As Karen looks up to the rooftop, Cherry emerges on the roof from the stairway, his gun drawn.
—Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Stairway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairway. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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stairway
noun
stair·way
-ˌwā 
: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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