pulpit
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“The truth is that when you are police chief you have a bully pulpit, and what you say or fail to say is important.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026
Roosevelt’s challenge to Wall Street, he writes, “was largely a bully pulpit affair, with rhetoric exceeding action.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
The Prince of Wales gave a Bible reading from the pulpit.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
But it would have been from the pulpit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
He grabbed a Bible from behind his pulpit and plumped down on one of the crude wooden pews.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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