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milepost
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A post on a highway, often with one or more fingerposts, showing the distance in miles to nearby places
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Evans was a key figure on Davis's Kind of Blue (1959), a milepost of jazz history and perhaps the finest recorded example of modal jazz, a style that eschews complex chords in favour of free melody.
southerly wind which white-horsed the water from the milepost to Hammersmith.
"It would be a tragedy if the world championship is won by a car driven by somebody who's slow as a roadside milepost, or a retired crock," said Renault's flamboyant team principal, disparaging the talents of Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello recently.
Whip along the boats for the first half-mile and you have the best of the tide in which to approach the milepost.
The scene was intended as a milepost in Walt's moral decay.
One milepost that Sally didn't mention is this: It is the week of your thirtieth birthday, and instead of sitting in a wheelchair, you are hitchiking along Virginia Beach Boulevard after selling your car.
In front of the dome, someone has planted the standard jokey symbol of isolation, a milepost that shows Kangerlussuaq, the nearest town, to be nine hundred kilometres away.
"Earl?" He had just passed milepost 2, and the Texan voices were getting steadier, as if they'd figured out that the static couldn't hurt them: that they were going to make it.
(Note that because engineers have been straightening the road's curves since it was opened, milepost designations don't always match actual mileage).
If nothing else, the last few days have marked another milepost in Woods's obsessed-over journey to reclaim his long-held position as the world's best golfer.
In the collective consciousness, hyperinflation stands as an important milepost in the slide to total catastrophe culminating with the total defeat of the Nazis in 1945.
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