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Who is Tony Hinchcliffe? Hinchcliffe, raised in Youngstown, Ohio, is a stand-up comedian who specializes in the roast style, in which comedians take the podium to needle a celebrity victim with personal and often tasteless jokes.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
Five years later, McGarvey took the podium at a convention of the building-trades unions and offered up half an hour of ardent love for the Biden Administration.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Students took their seats on risers behind the podium where Harris will speak later this afternoon, while other attendees took seats or found a place to stand next to the stage.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2024
The image of Elon Musk that may be dominating people’s mindspace at the moment is of his prancing about joyously — and yes, a tad weirdly — behind Donald Trump on the podium during the latter’s Oct. 5 rally in Butler, Pa.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
Five years later, McGarvey took the podium at a convention of the building-trades unions and offered up half an hour of ardent love for the Biden Administration.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Students took their seats on risers behind the podium where Harris will speak later this afternoon, while other attendees took seats or found a place to stand next to the stage.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2024
The image of Elon Musk that may be dominating people’s mindspace at the moment is of his prancing about joyously — and yes, a tad weirdly — behind Donald Trump on the podium during the latter’s Oct. 5 rally in Butler, Pa.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Indeed, Taiwan’s decision to respond to incursions into its air defense identification zone by scrambling fighter jets and to trail Chinese navy ships on the seas has heavily taxed its defense platforms and risks exhausting the military, thereby compromising Taiwan’s readiness for direct conflict.David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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Cox, who ran on a platform of restoring trust in Santa Clara’s government, could be a loyal ally of Mayor Lisa Gillmor, who is losing Councilmember Kathy Watanabe’s support in District 1 to term limits.Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Hunters and conservationists viewed it as a referendum on the future of wildlife management in Colorado (and potentially elsewhere), as Prop 127 would have set the stage for future hunting bans and taken even more decision-making power away from the wildlife managers at Colorado Parks and Wildlife.Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
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Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish hits the stage at Heritage Bank Center on Friday as part of her Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour.Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2024
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On the Sunday after in-person church services in California shut down because of the pandemic, Steven Rodriguez stood behind his pulpit in a suit and tie and preached to about 100 empty seats for a prerecorded online sermon.Autumn Alvarez, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
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Johnson has been using the pulpit of the speaker’s office in Washington to attack the U.S. judicial system, criticizing the courts as biased against the former president, claiming the case is politically motivated by Democrats and insisting Trump has done nothing wrong.Meg Kinnard, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
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Shocked into taking a political stand, Mann turned a birthday speech in honor of the Nobel Prize–winning author Gerhart Hauptmann into a stirring call for democracy.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The owner of Zone 9 Farms doesn’t have a traditional stand full of big ripe fruits and vegetables.Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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Two weeks ago, auctioneer Phyllis Kao, in a tailored gray jacket and hair pinned in a black swirl at her forehead, leaned with tensile agility over the rostrum.thehustle.co, thehustle.co, 2 Aug. 2024
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The catcher is near the whale’s rostrum–near its beak, snout, and vertebrae.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
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Also, longtime Mayor Steve Jones has reached the limit for terms leading on the dais.Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
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During board meetings, the two sit less than ten feet from each other on the dais.Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 20 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
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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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Sips and Sunsets Kids and traditional happy hours at resort bars are generally a mismatch, but no need to gaze longingly at a bar below from a guestroom balcony.Margaux Lushing, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Zoe Saldaña as Rita, a jaded defense attorney for white-collar criminals, is writing her closing argument, asking the jury to exonerate her client, a corrupt bureaucrat accused of pushing his wife off a balcony.Paula Aceves, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Podium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/podium. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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