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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a step past" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate moving beyond a certain point or threshold, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "In her career, she took a step past her comfort zone by accepting the challenging project."
Alternatives: "beyond" or "further than".
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So let's take a step past that.
Those chains were nearly flush with the platform, so riders wouldn't be able to take a step past the edge without hitting the two sets of chains.
The exquisite second course — winter truffle white tuna (sliced into carpaccio thinness) in a white soy sauce with yuzu dressing — was followed by grilled salmon, perfectly cooked to just a step past rare.
So next time you go to pick up a white wine, take a step past the California chardonnay section and see what else your local liquor or grocery store has on offer.
(Which I also remember: Julian Austin took a step past me and when he rose up, it was like nothing was holding on to his legs, he just kept rising). I didn't know you could do it like that.
But it does, Ms. Martin said, reflect a step past "truthiness," the Stephen Colbert coinage that Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society each chose as its word of the year a decade ago.
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As a Sierra Club hike leader who has been to Vernal Fall several times, I know that it's highly unlikely a hiker would step past guardrails and enter "raging" waters above the falls.
But the ads are a step above past anti-Trump advertising, because a "real victim" speaks.
This provides a step beyond past work in Drosophila where L. monocytogenes loads were measured at an arbitrary point post infection (Ayres et al. 2008; Ayres and Schneider 2008, 2009; Yano et al. 2008; Chambers et al. 2012a; Chambers and Schneider 2012); however, this logistic model is obviously incomplete because it ignores the immune response of the fly.
And when I passed by one Saturday afternoon on my way to meet up with my family, I took a few steps past, paused, turned around, and walked right in with absolutely no idea what I was doing.
In that sense, Huckabee's victory is not a step into the past.
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