pedestal

Don Colossus stands proud atop a stone pedestal, keeping vigil over a small commemorative plaque.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

“Drake was very highly regarded before then. For some people, that knocked him off the pedestal a bit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

But some in the industry would argue that, despite their cultural and economic contributions, games aren't placed on the same pedestal as other creative sectors.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

“I don’t believe that there is one hero for our movements. Movements are led by a collective, and you can’t create some pedestal for one person, because humans will always fail you.”

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026

Edna drew me a horse, and Héctor gave me one of his best marbles, which I set on a small pedestal carved from a dried avocado pit.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Some artificial-intelligence stocks that got knocked off their pedestals, in part due to a bruising July selloff, now represent attractive opportunities for investors, according to BofA analysts.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Displaying them overhead or enshrined on pedestals, as at MoMA, is more dramatic and less ambiguous than propping them against gallery walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Further investigation by the SIT has revealed pilferage also from the pedestals and door frames and the court says that approximately 4.54kg gold has gone missing since 2019.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

The monuments are astonishing to see, if only because one typically encounters them as an outdoor drive-by, raised high on tall pedestals that lift them 10, 30, even 50 feet in the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

Since the statues were really holographic projections, they had chisel-type labels floating in front of their pedestals identifying who the famous people were.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

But to Back Bay he is an idol, firmly pedestaled.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws.

From Time Magazine Archive

He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coal followed one of the curves to the closest pedestaled mirror.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

V. And we stopped beside the statue Of the marble Venus there Deeply pedestaled 'mid roses, Who their crimson hearts laid bare, Breathing out their lives in fragrance At her naked feet and fair.

From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein

It rises full over the desert; and a vast horizon comes into relief, broken by a huge shape which soon reveals itself in the spreading radiance as a Sphinx pedestalled on the sands.

From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw

She stands pedestalled on the lotus of our heart.

From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose

Plashing fountains, murmuring organs, a Marochetti Queen high pedestalled, white statues, glistering silver-blazoned banners.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Rather turn Whither, upon the upland, pedestalled Into the broad day-splendour, whom discern These eyes but thee, supreme one, rightly called Moon-maid in heaven above and, here below, Earth's huntress-queen?

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

Now, in a trice, he was not only admitted to comradeship, but patently valued as something rare and sacred to be acclaimed and pedestalled.

From Penrod by Booth Tarkington