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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

Barker is like a 6-foot-4-inch dancer at the rostrum, and he gives people time to deliberate, she said.

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

Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan is Sudan’s transitional leader, and returned to the rostrum for the second year.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

On the rostrum, seated in three compact rows of auditorium chairs, were about twenty children, mostly girls, ranging in age from about seven to thirteen.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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

He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have allowed this kind of subject to form a separate head, owing to the importance of rostra in Roman decoration, and to the continual occurrence of naval subjects in modern monumental bas-relief.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin

One rash fool, indeed, attempted to tear it down from the rostra of the Forum, like that mad wretch at Nicomedia; but he was taken in the act.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow

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

From newspapers, bill boards and rostrums was hurled the injunction to buy the War Loan and help mould the Silver Bullet that would crush the Germans.

From The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson