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Recent Examples of way station
For them, this is no temporary way station, Wui suffering from an illness that makes the Sea a final destination.
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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
They were imprisoned from 1941 to 1945 at Theresienstadt, known as a way station for most there, who were eventually sent to death camps.
—Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2025
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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
They were imprisoned from 1941 to 1945 at Theresienstadt, known as a way station for most there, who were eventually sent to death camps.
—Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for way station
station
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One is Allegheny Mountain Radio, a cooperative of three stations which cover Pocahontas County, West Virginia as well as Bath and Highland counties in Virginia.—
Frank Langfitt,
NPR,
20 July 2025
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The property’s club floor rooms come with access to a private lounge that has an ever-changing buffet, a rotating selection of drinks, sitting areas, work stations, and changing rooms for those coming off or beginning a long travel day.—
Paul Brady,
Travel + Leisure,
19 July 2025
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“Way station.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/way%20station. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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