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rostrum

[ros-truhm] / ˈrɒs trəm /


NOUN
podium
Synonyms


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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

General Assembly will mark his return to that rostrum for the first time since 2009, the last year of his previous presidency’s second term.

From Seattle Times Sep. 18, 2023

As the president began his address, he turned to the newly elected speaker behind him on the rostrum and congratulated him.

From Washington Times Feb. 7, 2023

A mat was brought in and rolled out in the semicircular space in front of the rostrum.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

Cato on the other hand would not relax his severity in the least, but threatened evil doers in his speeches from the rostra, and insisted that the city required a most searching reformation.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart

He had questioned his slaves who swore that from the arcades of the tabernae, where they had been waiting, they had seen nothing of what went on around the rostra.

From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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

Then the dirt began to be dished out, and tales that had been repeated for years in guarded whispers around the political cafes were trumpeted across the capital from public rostrums.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both the upper and the lower-enterprises, however, remained for many years after their inception in a quiescent state, serving simply as topics of newspaper discussion, or of buncombe addresses from local rostrums.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various




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