stepping stone
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- noun
- /ˈstɛpɪŋ stoʊn/
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trampolín
- I mean, I see Hollywood as a stepping stone.
- stepping stone to the presidency
- stepping stone to a professional
- served as a stepping stone
So embrace those stumbles as stepping stones on your journey.
- So embrace those stumbles as stepping stones on your journey.
- And often that is the stepping stone to where your dream career could be.
- He sees semi autonomous driving as a stepping stone towards fully autonomous driving.
- And but we shouldn't think of that as a stepping stone to Mars.
- You know, I use the TV as a stepping stone for this.
- Disruption that has to be seen as a stepping stone towards higher states of growth, toward a paradigm shift.
- So I used quiet quitting as a stepping stone to realize and to achieve my solution.
- Disruption has to be seen as a stepping stone towards higher states of growth, toward a paradigm shift.
- Paxton Sparks, Was ILM your dream job or did you feel like it was a stepping stone?
- This is a nice little stepping stone to get into.
- It's just a stepping stone to, to, to, to, to greatness.
Examples
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Think of them as stepping stones on the road to greatness.
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Such an awareness can be a small stepping stone to a professional reconsideration of what we stand for.
Academic text (1996) -
And I was using Wall Street as a stepping stone towards that end.
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This is the next stepping stone for me.
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And often that is the stepping stone to where your dream career could be.
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It's it's more it's just a necessary stepping stone to get where you want to be.
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We knew very early that YouTube is a stepping stone and not the end goal.
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I planned it as a kind of building up of layers of knowledge, each one acting as a kind of stepping stone to the next.
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Moreover, this research should be the stepping stone for the next stages of data comparison.
Academic text (2018) -
Training is free and can be a stepping stone to a medical career.
Synonyms
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An action taken as one stage in a process
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An initial success that opens the way for more progress
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An experience that helps someone make progress toward a goal
Antonyms
How Helpful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase evokes the literal image of stones you step on to cross something, so a learner who knows 'step' and 'stone' can likely infer the general sense 'an intermediate means to reach a goal.' However, the extension to a technical cybersecurity sense (a compromised machine used as an intermediary) is a domain-specific metaphorical use that may not be fully predictable without exposure, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Stepping stone comes from the image of flat stones you step on to move across water. So a short job or experience that helps you move 'towards a bigger goal' is called a stepping stone.