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

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Recent Examples of rostrum 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 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, 2 Aug. 2024 The catcher is near the whale’s rostrum–near its beak, snout, and vertebrae. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024 Soon-to-retire Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin’s presence behind Netanyahu on the rostrum attested to how much of a partisan figure Netanyahu has become. Joshua Keating, Vox, 24 July 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 20 Jan. 2025.

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