rostrum
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The address will mark the first time in five years that Newsom delivers a State of the State from the Assembly rostrum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
From the rostrum, Barker leaned in dramatically, smiled, sometimes waited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
As is customary, Mr. Johnson banged the gavel when Mr. Biden stepped up to the rostrum.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
“Madam speaker,” Republican Chip Roy of Texas said at one point, addressing the rostrum as members usually do, before correcting himself.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
He then called me up to the rostrum to receive a check from Mr. Wilde, a senior manager at Simba Quix.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twelve thousand words long,* it was handed to clerks in the House and Senate who intoned it from the nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
This spot, where the senate had its assemblies, where the rostra were placed, where the destinies of the world were discussed, is the most celebrated and the most classical of ancient Rome.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
What Licinius Crassus actually did was, while haranguing from the rostra, to turn his back upon the Comitium, where the Senators gathered, and address himself directly to the people assembled in the Forum.
From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Fairfax Harrison
They suck food through strawlike beaks called rostrums.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
It's incredible how focused and single-minded you have to be, and how hard you have to train, even to think about going to the Olympics, let alone standing on any rostrums.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Young, casual and appealing, a group of three men and a woman swept through half a dozen college campuses in Wisconsin last week, taking to the rostrums to advance a seriously embattled cause: nuclear power.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then we all knew how deathly opposed our pardners wuz to our takin' any public part in meetin' house matters or mountin' rostrums, and that thought quelled us down a sight.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 by Marietta Holley
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