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  • noun Plural form of waystation.

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Examples

  • I'll start it with Daniel Wolf, just because he knows that the point of intellectual activity isn't the grand a-ha conclusion, but all the fascinating waystations along the journey.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I'll start it with Daniel Wolf, just because he knows that the point of intellectual activity isn't the grand a-ha conclusion, but all the fascinating waystations along the journey.

    Gang of Five Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • During the twice-yearly Impressionist and Modern sales that are lucrative waystations in Christie's and Sotheby's nearly nonstop round of auctions, one is always tempted to ask: "Just who is buying all this stuff?"

    Season's Readings 2007

  • I should also think sometime about why I feel comfortable in in real life, and most of my favorite films involve bars, clubs, and bordellos, and other waystations of what the Japanese called the floating world: I wasn't intentionally raised that way.

    morehouse/party/ukiyo badger 2003

  • Except at the two waystations, where there were springs, there had been no sign of water anywhere, and few signs at all of animal life, except for scratlike creatures, and the occasional ravens, circling for carrion.

    Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

  • But there's no water on the way back, except at the waystations, and the nearest of those is more than two days away.

    Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

  • After five days of riding, with almost no sleep on the first night, he was sore, and stiff, and tired, although they had found two cavelike waystations, with springs.

    Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

  • "Both Lancer patrol companies are out at the waystations tonight."

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • This trip will be the vehicle's last, until those cells are replaced with the recharged cells periodically carried from Cyad to the replenishment waystations.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • However snug those waystations might be, they were still very spare of comforts, and the provisions stored in them made for simple and tediously similar meals.

    Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000

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