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a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information some readers don't appreciate that she sometimes uses her book blog as a soapbox for her political views

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Recent Examples of soapbox Colin Farrell plays Oz’s big soapbox moment like a kabuki version of an undercover midnight drug or arms deal scene from Miami Vice — hamming it up and steely-eyed steaming it up in equal measure. Andy Andersen, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2024 Nearly everyone — from a powerful politician all the way down to that cousin — has a soapbox from which to offend and to be offended. Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 For some, the natural conclusion of this argument is that museums and other cultural centers should be spared, invited into the conversation rather than made the soapbox for it. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024 In the northeast Bronx, elementary and middle school students build and race soapbox cars as part of their science curriculum. Bernard Mokam Gabriela Bhaskar, New York Times, 11 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for soapbox 
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Noun
  • The platform is on pace to make more than $1 billion in revenue in 2025.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This is well understood by the scammers who lurk on the platform.
    Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The forum is dominated by anonymous posts about would-be applicants complaining about waiting months to hear back from background investigators.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Workforce issues were central to insight forums around regulating AI in the last Congress, but those too did not result in changes to the system.
    Maria Curi, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • More than 200 guests were invited to the nuptials, yet Sarah showed a nearly empty venue after waiting for an hour and a half in a now-viral video recently posted on TikTok.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Alongside these theaters Majid Al Futtaim also operates other pop-up venues which are even more quirky.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Soapbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soapbox. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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