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pedestal

[ped-uh-stl] / ˈpɛd ə stl /


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She puts him a little bit on a pedestal, and I think he really needs that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"Playing an Open at Birkdale is something that is always going to be very, very special and sit on a pedestal for anybody from Southport," Fleetwood said.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Drake was very highly regarded before then. For some people, that knocked him off the pedestal a bit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

A "Japan glazer" is "someone who puts everything that comes from Japan on a pedestal, while disparaging things that come from their own country", Louzembi said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

One black leader, Reverend Archibald Carey, went so far as to put Thompson on a pedestal with Abraham Lincoln.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Some artificial-intelligence stocks that got knocked off their pedestals, in part due to a bruising July selloff, now represent attractive opportunities for investors, according to BofA analysts.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Further investigation by the SIT has revealed pilferage also from the pedestals and door frames and the court says that approximately 4.54kg gold has gone missing since 2019.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

“They are treated as gods and goddesses and put on pedestals for searching for and ‘representing’ truth and knowledge and recognizing and being proud of who they are and where they come from.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Parisi, together with a team of scientists, explored the limits of pedestals and investigated how much pressure could be applied to plasma inside a fusion reactor before instabilities appeared.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

Everywhere there were statues of lions—on top of pedestals, over doorways, on the porticoes of the largest buildings.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

But to Back Bay he is an idol, firmly pedestaled.

From Time Magazine Archive

He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coal followed one of the curves to the closest pedestaled mirror.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

The first warm impulses of patriotic and inflammable masses had pedestaled him as a demigod.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon

To the passing fashion of modern thought there is something stiff, scholastic, archaic, rigid, and even Byzantine, about the words "truth," "beauty," "goodness," thus pedestalled side by side.

From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys

As we drove up to the porticoed front door, I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sundial with which we had such strange associations.

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

She stands pedestalled on the lotus of our heart.

From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose

Tuscarora County was put through its paces for a gaping world; Clinton's Ditch—"well-spring of New York's commercial supremacy, gentlemen"—shown in rosiest apotheosis; the Empire State pedestalled imperially among the nations.

From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity.

From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton


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