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doorstep

noun as in step

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noun as in threshold

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This southern Illinois sits on the back doorstep as poor as Job’s turkey, as beautiful as redbud trees in spring.

Once word gets out that a British man is interested in buying bichos, villagers start showing up at his doorstep like UPS drivers.

As its name suggests, Try the World brings all of those goodies from around the globe straight to your doorstep.

Time is precious—buy yourself some more of itWe can send messages anywhere in the world instantly, travel across oceans in a matter of hours, and get almost anything we can dream of hand-delivered to our doorsteps within days.

Available for patients of all ages, tests are sent out via FedEx and arrive on doorsteps within 48 hours of ordering.

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Oprah, when she came, found a legion of her fans on its doorstep.

Despite doing nothing to get the man of her dreams, he arrives at her doorstep as if she Ubered the heartthrob.

One morning a few years ago, the editor left his apartment to find an ax stuck into a log on his doorstep.

When I reminded him that that could mean hundreds of offspring showing up on his doorstep, he didn't flinch.

From their perspective, as long as ISIS sits on Baghdad's doorstep, political change can wait.

A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.

For a while he raged like a flame upon the doorstep, but he was no match for his vigorous opponent.

On the doorstep stood the little seamstress ready to cast a handful of dried peas.

As for Ren, he sat on the single doorstep and whittled pegs on which to hang his rifle inside the door.

The first of them greeted Sara Lee one morning as she stood on her doorstep in the early sun.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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