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pulpit

[pool-pit, puhl-] / ˈpʊl pɪt, ˈpʌl- /
NOUN
structure from which sermon is given
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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

The surgeon general wields a powerful bully pulpit for health advice, and helps oversee the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, a public interest communications attorney, said Carr is using his bully pulpit at the FCC to intimidate “a timorous broadcasting industry.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

The Health Secretary has also used his bully pulpit to attack products he views as toxins, including pesticides and fluoride in water.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

There was a crude outline of an adult male on the pulpit of a harpoon boat.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Clergy preached independence from their pulpits, framing liberty and equality as moral obligations.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

“Sometimes I communicate from pulpits, sometimes from bar stools, sometimes from public parks,” he says.

From Salon Feb. 22, 2026

Mr Johnson was never going to be short of offers of pulpits from which to project - and he's found one already: a column in the Daily Mail and Mail Online.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2023

King was crisscrossing a segregated nation, preaching from the pulpits, issuing warnings about the nation’s very survival.

From Washington Post Apr. 25, 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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