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rostrum

[ros-truhm] / ˈrɒs trəm /


NOUN
podium
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Rodríguez, followed by other Cuban diplomats, then walked toward the rostrum where Waltz was speaking to address the presider, Bangladesh’s Khalilur Rahman who is president of the U.N.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Andrew Ewbank, who runs Ewbank's and conducted the sale from the rostrum himself, told bidders he was "going for a lie down" afterwards.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Its rostrum measures approximately 10 centimeters long but reaches an extraordinary 6 centimeters in width, making it the thickest known example of its kind.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Charlie said, watching Tansy’s return to the rostrum, and the way she gathered her skirts.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

They are best known for their distinctive, bullet-shaped internal skeletal structures, called rostra or guards, which are often the only parts of the animals that survive in the fossil record.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Gorgeously embroidered tunics could now be seen all the time pushing their way through the more common crowd, and soon a compact group of rich patricians had congregated 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

Twice during the week, the President mounted rostrums to defend his stand.

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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