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jumping-off place

NOUN
  1. a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched
    my point of departure was San Francisco
    one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him

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  • Realistic individual" is a jumping-off place of the Marxian new philosophy, it belongs to a entirety spectrum in the linguistic ambit of the Marxian philosophy.
  • In "The Jumping-off Place," about San Diego as the nation's suicide capital, epitome of native anguish and exhaustion, he concludes with a black parody of the all-American Whitmaniacal catalogue: they stuff up the cracks of their doors and quietly turn on the gas; they go into their back sheds or back kitchens and eat ant-paste or swallow Lysol; they drive their cars into dark alleys, get into the back seat and shoot themselves; they hang themselves in hotel bedrooms, take overdoses of sulphonal or barbital; they slip off to the municipal golf-links and there stab themselves with carving-knives; or they throw themselves into the bay, blue and placid, where gray battleships and cruisers guard the limits of their broad-belting nation-already reaching out in the eighties for the sugar plantations of Honolulu. Claremont.org
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  • one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him
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