as in haunt
a place for spending time or for socializing
if she isn't at home, you can usually find her at the local library, her favorite stamping ground
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Key to its legacy is its terrifying ending, which sees Nicholson’s detective J.J. Gittes return to his old stamping ground of Chinatown.
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 June 2024
That story began on June 23, 2018, when celebrating members of the Wild Boars soccer team entered Tham Luang, a favorite stamping ground, not realizing that the fast-approaching monsoon season was about to get an early start.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
But e-commerce is for now their main stamping ground.
—Telis Demos, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2021
Greece’s banking sector has been a stamping ground for international investors since the country’s emergence from crippling bailout programs and years of economic turmoil.
—Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 June 2021
Each has its own strong personality, stamping ground and cat frenemies.
—Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
Once a stamping ground where rugged, able stuntmen such as Cliff made an all-American genre staple, the place is now a decaying gynocracy where hippie chicks laze about all day.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
There’d also be a pit stop in neighboring Harpswell, a stamping ground of hers as a girl.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
Thursday marked his first game at his old stamping grounds.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 June 2024
That story began on June 23, 2018, when celebrating members of the Wild Boars soccer team entered Tham Luang, a favorite stamping ground, not realizing that the fast-approaching monsoon season was about to get an early start.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
But e-commerce is for now their main stamping ground.
—Telis Demos, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2021
Greece’s banking sector has been a stamping ground for international investors since the country’s emergence from crippling bailout programs and years of economic turmoil.
—Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 June 2021
Each has its own strong personality, stamping ground and cat frenemies.
—Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
Once a stamping ground where rugged, able stuntmen such as Cliff made an all-American genre staple, the place is now a decaying gynocracy where hippie chicks laze about all day.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
There’d also be a pit stop in neighboring Harpswell, a stamping ground of hers as a girl.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
Thursday marked his first game at his old stamping grounds.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
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