pulpit
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While he wasn’t out campaigning, he used his social-media bully pulpit, especially against Talarico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The post of chair of NATO’s military committee, known as CMC, is more of a high-level intermediary with a bully pulpit than battle commander and is held by a non-U.S. figure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
As a Christian minister of an American Baptist congregation, I’ve spent more than 20 years in a pulpit — long enough to know the difference between protecting a church and conscripting one.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
They can make major unilateral decisions — such as welcoming federal troops into California cities — and command a bully pulpit to drive public opinion and policy, including through statewide ballot measures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Now he climbed into the pulpit and looked us over.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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ASLSP, moreover, reflects the magical unhurriedness the world craves, be it the slowing down of AI or turning down the volume on social media and politicians’ bully pulpits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Because many colonists were illiterate, the Declaration was commonly declaimed by local officials in town squares and preachers in pulpits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
At the end of the day, only the preachers in the pulpits can reach the evangelical faithful.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2024
When two pastors rise to their respective pulpits on a Sunday morning, both shoulder a growing weariness about shootings in the world outside their doors.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
A second, and then a third, pastoral was read from the pulpits.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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