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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

If Warsh goes quiet while his colleagues continue to give economic-outlook speeches, a kind of unilateral disarmament could take hold where the chair forfeits the bully pulpit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

In this moment, “the box,” as Mero casually refers to it, became a true communal stage, a participatory call-and-response pulpit for the neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 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

She stepped away from the pulpit to applause, but it wasn’t celebratory.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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

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

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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