as in podium
a level usually raised surface stood on a rostrum to address the huge crowd

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Recent Examples on the Web Video from a witness showed the sawfish along a bank of mangroves in shallow water, clearly distressed and thrashing its chainsaw snout, called a rostrum, above the surface. Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024 One clerk puts on gloves to take a silver inkstand out of a drawer and place it onto the speaker’s rostrum. Ben Jacobs, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024 Some specimens also had a much steeper angle of their rostrum, the hard beak-like shape of the face. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024 Ritter motioned for Maroney, a former House member who has established himself as the General Assembly’s diligent, if nerdy, student of artificial intelligence, to join him on the rostrum for a blunt message: Maroney’s ambitious bill regulating AI needs a signoff from a skeptical Gov. Ned Lamont. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rostrum 

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“Rostrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rostrum. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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