as in platform
a level usually raised surface the conductor on the podium tonight is one of the leading figures of classical music

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Recent Examples of podium The following month, Quavo took the podium at one of Harris’ rallies to champion her in the presidential race and commended her for helping to pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, one of the most significant laws passed in the fight against gun violence in history. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024 There are more women onstage, on the podium, and in the programs. Justin Davidson, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024 Now that Tennis: 2024 is over, the Djokovic-Murray partnership is on the podium alongside Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner’s positive doping tests in the gasp of the year awards. Tim Ellis, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024 The person who boarded the flight bypassed the document check podium and a gate agent, but was fully screened at a security checkpoint at JFK, a TSA spokesperson told ABC News. Clara McMichael, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for podium 
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Noun
  • But now, the National Trust, the conservation charity that owns the castle, has created a viewing platform for members of the public who want to see the view from the hilltop fortress.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Spotify Wrapped has been around since 2015 and has continued to show users of the digital music platform a compilation of their listening habits throughout the year, whether that's their top artists, albums or songs.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
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  • Beyond the couple’s intimate abode, on the wider stage, just such a dazzle of glorious, soaring high-rises materializes.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
  • This, paired with a growing population largely defined by younger professionals, has helped redefine how Austin is seen on the national stage.
    Beck Andrew Salgado, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
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  • Both are examples of populist-leaning pulpits where alternative narratives often flourish and all speech, even hate speech, is allowed, leading many on the Left to criticize them for fomenting alleged disinformation.
    Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Across the room, near where the pulpit would be, sits a sculpture of chunky, red, antiquated computer monitors flashing bygone web pages — a snapshot of the World Wide Web in 1997, and the earliest entry to the Internet Archive’s enormous digital collection.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
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  • The state park, California’s oldest, is also the largest stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The following morning, Nov. 20, Heskett was back in the same stand.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This year, once again, the U.N. General Assembly high-level debate will be dominated by men speaking at the rostrum.
    Stéphanie Fillion, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Then late last week, videos posted on YouTube looked showed a large sawfish swinging its rostrum out of the water in the Boynton Inlet, looking eerily similar to images from the Keys.
    Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Guthrie’s black-and-white nameplate, which had a place on the dais for more than a decade, was removed Tuesday night.
    Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Norby talks about the fact that there’s discord up on the dais.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
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  • Trump may have proved to be a uniquely popular tribune for this constituency.
    Arthur C. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
  • My question to you on this front is, Donald Trump seems like an unlikely tribune for populism, given his wealth, given his flouting of various kinds of conventions for his own benefit, rather than that of the masses.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2016
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  • Died after falling from a hotel balcony. Yahya Sinwar, 61.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The former One Direction star tragically passed away in mid-October after a fall from a hotel balcony.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Podium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/podium. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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