pulpit
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The controller has a bully pulpit to vent about the city’s dire financial straits, as well as auditing powers to unearth where the city might be overspending, but does not actually manage the budget.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
They can make major unilateral decisions — such as welcoming federal troops into California cities — and command a bully pulpit to drive public opinion and policy, including through statewide ballot measures.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 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
Above the pulpit hung a battered Christmas bell, the accordion sort that collapses.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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