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
“The people’s house is back in business,” Mr. Johnson told lawmakers in his inaugural address, delivered from the speaker’s rostrum.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
Afghanistan, Myanmar, Niger and Madagascar were each absent from the rostrum.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 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
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
Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Ward asked leave to defend himself in English, and occupied one of the rostra, usually devoted to the recital of prize poems and essays.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
On this day also, did a scholar ascend the rostra to greet in a well turned latin Ode the General as the honored guest of the house and to praise his virtues.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf
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
But although the designs of Lissitzky and others were used quite often for hoardings, rostrums and so forth, there is no way of judging their actual political effect, if any.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her eloquence and inspiration charmed the multitude from a thousand rostrums.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
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