pedestal
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"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 City Hall, the statue of Columbus stood atop a stone pedestal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Don Colossus stands proud atop a stone pedestal, keeping vigil over a small commemorative plaque.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
A "Japan glazer" is "someone who puts everything that comes from Japan on a pedestal, while disparaging things that come from their own country", Louzembi said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
He’d packed earth beneath the glass caps like a pedestal to show off their delicate silhouettes.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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
These beautiful buildings acting as pedestals for some kind of ad space, you know?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
“They are treated as gods and goddesses and put on pedestals for searching for and ‘representing’ truth and knowledge and recognizing and being proud of who they are and where they come from.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Fundamentally, the new model enhances our understanding of pedestals and brings scientists closer to achieving the greater goal of designing a fusion reactor that generates more power than it consumes.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
He could make out the shells of temples and bathhouses, a half-buried amphitheater, and empty pedestals that must have once held statues.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
Apparently she might never, even for a moment, enjoy the luxury of being a human being with ambitions like Stefan's own, but must remain ever pedestaled as his inspiration.
From The Nest Builder by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
It rises full over the desert; and a vast horizon comes into relief, broken by a huge shape which soon reveals itself in the spreading radiance as a Sphinx pedestalled on the sands.
From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw
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
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
So he drove them out, and stood alone confronting "Statuesque Balaustion pedestalled On much disapprobation and mistake."
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
He really must get some one to give him that little pedestalled Cupid which he saw yesterday in Wardour Street.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
Vocabulary lists containing pedestal
Body Language: Ped, Pod ("Foot")
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