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as in key
something that allows someone to achieve a desired goal
hopefully, my college degree will be a gateway to a high-paying job
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as in access
the means or right of entering or participating in
Denver is the gateway to the West
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Recent Examples of gateway
Their expansion east of Europe, past the gateway of the Caucasus Mountains, may have occurred through more than one route.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Salt Lake City, Utah Lift Ticket Price: $110 per day with a seven-day Epic Pass for Park City, $112 per day with a four-day Ikon Pass at Deer Valley, Snowbird, Alta, Solitude, and Brighton
Salt Lake is really just the gateway to great skiing in Utah.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
And 'The Nutcracker' is really the gateway to other dance experiences.
—Nicole Cobler, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
Serving as the gateway to the Olympic National Park, visitors and locals can enjoy picturesque hiking trials, bird watching, biking and much more.
—Emma Kershaw, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Salt Lake City, Utah Lift Ticket Price: $110 per day with a seven-day Epic Pass for Park City, $112 per day with a four-day Ikon Pass at Deer Valley, Snowbird, Alta, Solitude, and Brighton
Salt Lake is really just the gateway to great skiing in Utah.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
And 'The Nutcracker' is really the gateway to other dance experiences.
—Nicole Cobler, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
Serving as the gateway to the Olympic National Park, visitors and locals can enjoy picturesque hiking trials, bird watching, biking and much more.
—Emma Kershaw, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gateway
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The key for the holidays is to align your most powerful channels with the right objectives.Alison Bringé, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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The key lies not in fighting the block head-on, but in finding new pathways around it.JD Barker, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
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Get unlimited digital access, along with subscriber-exclusive content, and more.Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
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For renters, whose heat is often controlled by a landlord, the state has certain laws in place protecting their heat access through the winter.Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
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Hang it in doorways to create a kissing spot or a great place for customers to take selfies in your store.Jackie Nance-Sons, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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No one gave him a talk on how to react when people stare at him walking through an airport or dropping his head to get through a doorway.Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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The $4 game tickets set aside for the public went fast.Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 13 Dec. 2024
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Plus, on most journeys, seniors save 10% on ticket costs—that means travelers 65 and over for qualifying domestic trips and ages 60 and up on cross-border expeditions.Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2024
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No one is exactly banging down the doors of Barack Obama, whose braintrust joined the Harris effort and have since joined the pile-on, let alone Bill or Hillary Clinton.Philip Elliott, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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With 3 Historic Homes Just Listed for $42.5 Million Stone flooring trails down a hallway that opens into the bedrooms through pocket doors fitted with Italian hardware.Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2024
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Before dawn, bewildered residents drove near military installations around the capital, noting that no soldiers appeared to be manning the gates and that posts seemed abandoned.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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The scenes recall one of the most symbolic images from the Arab Spring in Syria, when pro-democracy protesters tore down Assad posters on top of the same gates in 2011.Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Combs’ legal team had been aggressively fighting for his release, putting forward a substantial $50 million bail package, which included his Miami compound, some of his children’s passports, around-the-clock monitoring, and routine drug testing as collateral and terms for his release.Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
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He was also ordered to surrender his passport, according to FOX 6.Brie Stimson, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2024
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Venus’ entrance to Aquarius intensifies your dating life!USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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Conventional wisdom suggested this entrance was unfashionably late.Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Gateway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gateway. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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