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pulpit

[pool-pit, puhl-] / ˈpʊl pɪt, ˈpʌl- /
NOUN
structure from which sermon is given
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The post of chair of NATO’s military committee, known as CMC, is more of a high-level intermediary with a bully pulpit than battle commander and is held by a non-U.S. figure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

Jin’s path to the pulpit was forged in the aftermath of a different crackdown: Tiananmen Square.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

The state superintendent typically takes advantage of the bully pulpit on education issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The idea is, the long pulpit puts the harpooner right over the fish so he can strike down at them before they feel the boat.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

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

Because many colonists were illiterate, the Declaration was commonly declaimed by local officials in town squares and preachers in pulpits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

At the end of the day, only the preachers in the pulpits can reach the evangelical faithful.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2024

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

Why, it’s them that, not content with printin’ lies on paper an’ preachin’ them out of pulpits, does want to be cuttin’ them on the tombstones.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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