escalator
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The first booth you ran into as you traveled up the escalator was a very pathetic Libertarian Party booth that was basically a Bob Barr booth paid for by the LP.
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- noun A moving stairway consisting of steps attached to a continuously circulating belt.
- noun An escalator clause.
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- Fumero also knew that Julian would never agree to confront his old friend, dying as Aldaya was, reduced to nothing but a whimper. — The Shadow of the Wind
- "You've never been with anyone before, have you?" he had quietly asked. — Honorbound
- The central concourse at the top of the escalator is a big rectangular box with a floor of scratched pink tiles, spotted with irregular, dark stains, like rubbery spit. — InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#216
- At the foot of the escalator was a bar, which was apparently a good place, for it was always full, too. — Isaac Asimov - Murder at the ABA
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The first booth you ran into as you traveled up the escalator was a very pathetic Libertarian Party booth that was basically a Bob Barr booth paid for by the LP.
— Libertarian Blog Place
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- Originally a trademark.
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/ (ĕsˈkə-lāˌtər)/
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