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- noun Plural form of
stepstone .
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"stepstones" to make it easy for any company to manufacture and sell smart networked devices - while also making them more user-friendly for consumers.
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"stepstones" to make it easy for any company to manufacture and sell smart networked devices - while also making them more user-friendly for consumers.
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Undiluted, guilty pleasure of the vintage pulp adventure ... full of dark (somber and even macabre) tones, bathed in rays of soaring, brittle light - a heady brew, an experience not unlike a pint of complex English stout (paired with an aged cheese), enjoyed on the stepstones of a looming cathedral, not far away from an ancient cemetery, watching the purple haze and glorious golden-lined clouds of a dying sunset.
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I am afraid you could not heave ahore one of your own old stepstones, barnabarnabarn, over a stumbledown wall here in Huddlestown to this classic Noctuber night but itandthey woule binge, much as vecious, off the dosshouse back of a racerider in his truetoflesh colours, either handicapped on her flat or barely repeating himself.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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So tread carefully on the stepstones of history, to occasionally fall off them as unwitting victims…
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