way station
a station intermediate between principal stations, as on a railroad.
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How to use way station in a sentence
As it has grown, Parler has become a way station for hate speech and misinformation that Twitter and Facebook wouldn’t allow.
The small base was a way station for U.S. troops en route to the Korengal.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn an idea-deprived fashion world, punk has become just the latest way station in an infinite retro-regression.
Punk: Chaos to Couture at the Costume Institute Shows How Derivative the Style Has Become | Blake Gopnik | May 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBrindisi has usually been considered a mere way station on the travellers itinerary, where he changes train for boat.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | Francis MiltounThen Mose had another happy thought, and dropped off at a way station and wired the clerk at the Palmer House.
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son | George Horace Lorimer
Though we did not realize it at the time, this was destined to be only a place to winter, a way station on our route to Oregon.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail | Ezra MeekerAt noon of a bright day, Jim landed at a little way station from which a single-gauge track ran off into apparent nothingness.
Still Jim | Honor Willsie MorrowI could start a way station of some sort, on some pretext, and go on innoculating the public as they come past.
Highways in Hiding | George Oliver Smith
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