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
As is customary, Mr. Johnson banged the gavel when Mr. Biden stepped up to the rostrum.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
“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
Two men, duded up in town clothes, marched down through us to the rostrum.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
Those shrews are reddish, large-skulled, large-toothed, and have rostra that are large in proportion to the size of the skull as a whole.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley
As for his other pseudonyme, "the Homer of a hundred sieges," that must have been invented by Mr. George Robins, the Demosthenes of "one hundred rostra."
From Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by Andrew Archibald Paton
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
The lecture rostrums will fairly swarm with these fortunates.
From The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches by Mark Twain
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