rostrum
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The address will mark the first time in five years that Newsom delivers a State of the State from the Assembly rostrum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
From the rostrum, Barker leaned in dramatically, smiled, sometimes waited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
General Assembly will mark his return to that rostrum for the first time since 2009, the last year of his previous presidency’s second term.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
As the president began his address, he turned to the newly elected speaker behind him on the rostrum and congratulated him.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Tansy stuck her in the crook of her arm and climbed the rostrum to settle her in teacher’s chair behind the desk.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twelve thousand words long,* it was handed to clerks in the House and Senate who intoned it from the nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
The three projecting rostra which we now see in front of the palace are restorations by Signor Rosa.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
He had questioned his slaves who swore that from the arcades of the tabernae, where they had been waiting, they had seen nothing of what went on around the rostra.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
They suck food through strawlike beaks called rostrums.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
It's incredible how focused and single-minded you have to be, and how hard you have to train, even to think about going to the Olympics, let alone standing on any rostrums.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Statesmen on public rostrums do not of course speak so plainly.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lecture rostrums will fairly swarm with these fortunates.
From The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches by Mark Twain
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