pedestal
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"Playing an Open at Birkdale is something that is always going to be very, very special and sit on a pedestal for anybody from Southport," Fleetwood said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
At City Hall, the statue of Columbus stood atop a stone pedestal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Don Colossus stands proud atop a stone pedestal, keeping vigil over a small commemorative plaque.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
They’re here, they’re there, they move from pedestal to pedestal.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
At sunset, Percy found Nico tying ropes around the pedestal of the Athena Parthenos.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
“They are treated as gods and goddesses and put on pedestals for searching for and ‘representing’ truth and knowledge and recognizing and being proud of who they are and where they come from.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Parisi, together with a team of scientists, explored the limits of pedestals and investigated how much pressure could be applied to plasma inside a fusion reactor before instabilities appeared.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
They chose to paint it “quetzal,” a rich aqua color that serves as a uniting element for the room’s other pedestals.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
It was cold outside, and dark, and a leaky, insipid mist lay swollen in the air and trickled down the large, unpolished stone blocks of the houses and the pedestals of monuments.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
From Mysticism in English Literature by Spurgeon, Caroline F. E.
A body less firmly pedestalled upon powerful legs and scoop-shovel feet would have gone down.
From The Devil's Asteroid by Wellman, Manly Wade
He really must get some one to give him that little pedestalled Cupid which he saw yesterday in Wardour Street.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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 Symons, Arthur
She stands pedestalled on the lotus of our heart.
From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph?
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur
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