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springboard
noun as in jumping-off place
Example Sentences
Adofo said he hoped the events would be a springboard to involve more residents in their community and provide outlets for them to engage in the self-determination championed by King.
They hope to use that as a springboard to build interest in the commercial product, which should be available some time later this year.
Financial Garden also teaches kids how to start their own businesses and be financially sustainable using their talents and passions as a springboard.
He wanted to highlight how we could use the moon as a springboard to expand human civilization into the rest of the solar system.
Amanda Stone says Olly uses an initial customer purchase as a springboard to pitch additional products to the consumer.
ABC had effectively removed the launching coil on its Modern Family springboard.
Marie Claire editor in chief Anne Fulenwider said she has no comment about Mam using her magazine as a springboard for redemption.
But, like a traditional shaman, Coltrane clearly believed that the drums served as a springboard to a higher order of engagement.
But sometimes heritage is an irrepressibly fascinating springboard for talent.
The D.C. Circuit has been their springboard for rear-guard actions against the administration, and they want to preserve it.
One after the other the boys ran up the springboard until only Jim and the stranger were left.
A log thrust up suddenly beneath Cottrells feet and threw him into the air as if he had been shot from a springboard.
I've always had a horror of being married for a living or for a home or as an experiment or a springboard.
She slid her forefeet a little way down the grassy side and went out over the water as if the bank had been a springboard.
Early in the performance a series of flying leaps from a springboard, in which all the acrobats took part, was introduced.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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