pedestal
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She puts him a little bit on a pedestal, and I think he really needs that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Is historic male dominance in sports teetering like a marble Adonis on a wobbly pedestal?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Playing an Open at Birkdale is something that is always going to be very, very special and sit on a pedestal for anybody from Southport," Fleetwood said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
At Amarapura's Nagayon Pagoda, a Buddha statue reduced to just two legs and hands on a pedestal has been fully restored, looking out with a serene gaze.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
They simply removed the crabs from the top of the pedestal.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Some artificial-intelligence stocks that got knocked off their pedestals, in part due to a bruising July selloff, now represent attractive opportunities for investors, according to BofA analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The lower level of the Winners Gallery has cars on pedestals that are banked 9 degrees, 12 minutes—the same as the four banked turns of the racetrack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Parisi, together with a team of scientists, explored the limits of pedestals and investigated how much pressure could be applied to plasma inside a fusion reactor before instabilities appeared.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
There are also two “Starry ball” pedestals behind the third rack, to the left and right, worth three points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
They slumbered on plush chairs or lurked among the vases and pedestals.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
But to Back Bay he is an idol, firmly pedestaled.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coal followed one of the curves to the closest pedestaled mirror.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Why comes temptation but for a man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
From Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz
She stands pedestalled on the lotus of our heart.
From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
To the passing fashion of modern thought there is something stiff, scholastic, archaic, rigid, and even Byzantine, about the words "truth," "beauty," "goodness," thus pedestalled side by side.
From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
A body less firmly pedestalled upon powerful legs and scoop-shovel feet would have gone down.
From The Devil's Asteroid by Manly Wade Wellman
She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity.
From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Plashing fountains, murmuring organs, a Marochetti Queen high pedestalled, white statues, glistering silver-blazoned banners.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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