pedestal

At City Hall, the statue of Columbus stood atop a stone pedestal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

They’re here, they’re there, they move from pedestal to pedestal.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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

At Amarapura's Nagayon Pagoda, a Buddha statue reduced to just two legs and hands on a pedestal has been fully restored, looking out with a serene gaze.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

And where I was standing on a pedestal, clapping.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

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

Fundamentally, the new model enhances our understanding of pedestals and brings scientists closer to achieving the greater goal of designing a fusion reactor that generates more power than it consumes.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

The vault is a wide, dark space with little spotlights shining down on long rows of pedestals.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

And then I knew—some intuition said—   That tombs were not and men had cleared their shelves Of urns; and the electro-plated dead   Stood pedestaled as statues of themselves.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce

She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity.

From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

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 Arthur Symons

She stands pedestalled on the lotus of our heart.

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

To the passing fashion of modern thought there is something stiff, scholastic, archaic, rigid, and even Byzantine, about the words "truth," "beauty," "goodness," thus pedestalled side by side.

From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys

As we drove up to the porticoed front door I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sun-dial with which we had such strange associations.

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle