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
Here are six questions facing Mr. Biden before he steps to the rostrum on Thursday at 9 p.m.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
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
She stepped heavily down from the rostrum and pointed the polished pointer at Pearl.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Statues of the ambassadors, who were slain at Fidenæ, were set up in the rostra at the public expense.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
At noon Pompey sat down, and Clodius got possession of the rostra, and in the middle of a violent tumult remained on his feet for two hours.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
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
This summer six of them took to various rostrums to bemoan their plight as ultimate arbiters in an overly litigious society.
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
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