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Origin of stepladder
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Why ask someone else to climb a stepladder to reach a cobweb?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
"I thought I could have a piece of the Moon, somehow, touching someone's foot, somehow connected with my stepladder, somehow in my living room," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The rented rig had no counterweight, so when they wanted to lift Tannahill, who originated the role of the actor playing Peter Pan, a crew member had to jump off a stepladder.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
They sprung into action and found it on a stepladder where I had apparently set it while looking at Halloween cards for my grandchildren.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
And how could one do that without a stepladder?
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
For days afterward, Medina sifted through the burned-out garage for his angle saws and stepladders, but they had all been destroyed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025
She added there needed to be an increased recognition and rigour within the industry to address the risks associated with stepladders.
From BBC ● May 16, 2023
They stood on stepladders, or scaled mailboxes, or huddled before giant screens in Hyde Park to get the best view they could of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
The best prepared had tents, flasks of tea, sandwiches and stepladders.
From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2022
Empty paint buckets, paint brushes, stepladders, stools, saucepans, frying-pans, rotten eggs, dead rats, bottles of hair-oil—anything those brutes could lay their hands on came raining down upon the peach.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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