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  • noun Plural form of steppingstone, an alternative form of stepping stone.

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Examples

  • | "steppingstones" without hyphen is as in the original.

    Voodoo Planet Andre Norton 1958

  • Don't get me wrong: we're supposed to see our problems and use our challenges as steppingstones to reawaken our potential.

    Yehuda Berg: Hugging Our Inner Child, Not Our Chaos Yehuda Berg 2011

  • Some were sold in lean times, others were steppingstones to other purchases, or perhaps we assumed we buy another someday but the model was discontinued.

    All of us who've owned a number of firearms have sold or traded a few that, had wisdom or foresight prevailed, we would have kep 2009

  • Only this time, they cut through an opening on the side of the yard with the banana trees and followed steppingstones in a diagonal pattern that took all of them to the large covered patio at the back of the house.

    Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010

  • Only this time, they cut through an opening on the side of the yard with the banana trees and followed steppingstones in a diagonal pattern that took all of them to the large covered patio at the back of the house.

    Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010

  • There are statues, rocks, small self-contained water features, a bamboo water flute, square and round steppingstones and millstones, a round brick patio with a raked gravel edge and fire pit in the center, stands holding bonsai, and a stone bridge.

    Green Scene: A Japanese garden's natural serenity 2010

  • He waved for her to come over, and she made her way toward him, gingerly picking her way on the steppingstones.

    Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010

  • He waved for her to come over, and she made her way toward him, gingerly picking her way on the steppingstones.

    Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010

  • Only this time, they cut through an opening on the side of the yard with the banana trees and followed steppingstones in a diagonal pattern that took all of them to the large covered patio at the back of the house.

    Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010

  • He waved for her to come over, and she made her way toward him, gingerly picking her way on the steppingstones.

    Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010

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